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Rodent
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Order of usually small Terragen gnawing mammals, mostly herbivorous, distinguished by enlarged front incisors and a lack of canine teeth. Includes rats, mice, hamsters, squirrels, voles, beavers and many other species. The most diverse of all Terragen mammals, some rodents have proved extremely adaptable and accompanied baseline humans into space during the Interplanetary period. Others however are very vulnerable to new conditions and require biohabitats that reproduce their original environment. Rodents are a popular subject for gengineeers and rodent variants often prove to be popular pets.

Several species of rodent have been provolved to sophont-level intelligence, including raffins and other types of rat provolve, and the micemen, cybermice, hive mice and hypermice which originated on Tien-schu.
 
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Development Notes
Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Initially published on 22 December 2001.

 
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