Name | Food | Teeth |
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tapir | leaves mostly, but also fruits and nuts [p. 91] | two kinds of teeth: chisel-shaped incisors to snip off leaves; molars behind toothless gap, flat and ridged for grinding [p. 90] |
chevrotain | fallen fruit and leaves [p. 94] | two teeth, one on either side of upper jaw, enlarged into short tusks [p. 92], molars [p. 94] |
rabbit | mainly grass (and other herbaceous plants) [p. 95] | large pair of chisel-shaped teeth, with smaller pair at side [p. 95] |
hippopotamus | grass (and other herbaceous plants) [p. 99] | Do not use teeth like conventional grazers (though their grinding molars are huge). Nip the grass with huge leathery lips, ripping up the leaves with sways of the head [p. 99]. The front teeth (i.e. the canines and incisors) have become tusks, used for display and fighting. Front incisors may be used for fighting, and thus become chipped [p. 102] |