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 * ...that one burrow of the eastern chipmunk (pictured) was found to contain 390 acorns?
 * .. that the Hare Indian dog, now extinct, was not known to bark, but puppies learned to imitate the barking of other dogs when the breed was introduced to Europe?
 * ... that the rodents Thomasomys ucucha from Ecuador and Oxymycterus hucucha from Bolivia were both named after the local Quechua word for "mouse"?
 * ...that the incisors of blesmols are visible even when their mouths are closed?
 * ... that the pebble-mound mice of northern Australia construct mounds of stones around their burrows up to 10 m2 in area?
 * ... that the stationmaster of the Kinokawa train station in Kinokawa, Japan was a cat named Tama?

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