Hares, pikas, and rabbits

Hares, pikas, and rabbits

Order : Lagomorpha

  The order of Lagomorpha consists of two familes: Leporidae (hares and rabbits) and Ochotonidae (pikas). The members of Lagomorpha are sometimes mistaken for rodents, but there are a lot of differences between rodents and members of Lagomorpha. From wikipedia:

- Lagomorphs (loģ o-moŕ fs)(Gr. lagos, hare: + morphē, form) differ from rodents in that:
- they have four incisors in the upper jaw (not two as in rodents);
- they will only eat vegetation (unlike rodents, who will eat meat and vegetation)
- the male's scrotum is in front of the penis;
- the penis has no bone (baculum) unlike the rodent penis; and
- they will redigest first-time droppings (called cecotropes) to obtain the most from their plant diet.

They resemble rodents, however, in that their teeth grow throughout their life, thus necessitating constant chewing to keep them from growing too long.

Featured members are

• American Pika
  
• European hare
• European rabbit
  

Animals in the order Lagomorpha
Pygmy rabbit
Riverine rabbit
Mountain hare
Sumatran rabbit
Alpine pika
American pika
Arctic hare
Black-tailed jackrabbit
Cape hare
European hare
White-tailed jackrabbit
European rabbit
Swamp rabbit
Audubon's cottontail
Tapeti

1. slowdown, lag, retardation -- (the act of slowing down or falling behind)
slowdown
lag
retardation
2. interim, lag -- (the time between one event, process, or period and another)
interim
lag
3. stave, lag -- (one of several thin pieces of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket)
stave
lag
(Source WordNet)