Wikipedia:WikiProject Rodents/References

The following are references of possible use to the [WikiProject Rodents Group].

I have added my name after books that I have hard copies of; if it is not in your library and not online in part or full, I can look up / scan the info needed. (I have not bothered to do this with articles that are definitely online and linked to here). If you want to offer to look up info in books you have, please add your name to references too.

I have included some of my older pet books- while info might be out of date, there may be some historical info of use in them --6th Happiness (talk) 00:16, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Various Species

 * • Chapters: Rodents and People, Form and Function, Reproduction, Evolution and Distribution, The Order Rodentia, Sciuromorpha, Myomorpha, Caviomorpha, Checklist of Rodent Families


 * • [Google Books]


 * • [Google Preview]


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 * • [Full text online at Internet Archive]


 * • [Google Preview] Tags: porcupine, mountain beaver, squirrels, beavers, jumping mice, rats, mice, voles, pocket gophers, kangaroo rats, kangaroo mice, pocket mice.


 * • [Google Preview] Tags: Four striped grass mouse (R. pumilio), Striped grass mice and zebra mice (Lemniscomys), Creek Rats (Pelomys), Unstriped Grass Rats (Arvicanthis), Acacia rat (Thallomys paedulcus)


 * • [Google Books] Tags: Fossils, Paleontology


 * • [Google Books] Tags: Biology, husbandry, nutrition, preventive medicine, restraint, and diseases (inc zoonoses) of: Chinchillas, gerbils, cavies, hamsters (syrian), rats, mice,


 * • Basics on: syrian hamsters, chinchillas, gerbils,


 * • [Google Books] Tags: Allenby's gerbil, sand gerbil, Namib gerbil, antelope squirrel, cape ground squirrel, common spiny mouse, deer mice, degu, pocket mouse, kangaroo rat, pygmy rock mouse, multimammate mouse, chipmunk, swamp rat


 * • [Google Books] Tags: beaver, chipmunk, plains pocket gopher, plains pocket mouse, meadow jumping mouse, thirteen lined squirrel / thirteen striped squirrel, eastern chipmunk, woodchuck, southern bog lemming, woodland vole, meadow vole, prairie vole, franklin's ground squirrel, fox squirrel, eastern grey squirrel, western harvest mouse, muskrat, plains harvest mouse, fulvous harvest mouse, hispid cotton rat, texas mouse, white footed mouse, deer mouse, cotton mouse, golden mouse, house mouse, eastern wood rat, norway rat, marsh rice rat, black rat, southern flying squirrel


 * •   [Google Preview] Tags: sand rats, kangaroo rats, wild and black rats, Polynesian rat, tree rat, multimammate rat, wood rat, cane rat, cotton rat, rice rat, climbing rat, African white tailed rat,




 * • [Google Books]


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Beavers (American)

 * • Aznar, J. and Desrochers, A.. Building for the future: Abandoned beaver ponds promote bird diversity. Ecoscience (2008) 15:2, 250-257. abstract


 * • Butler D.R., Malanson G.P. The geomorphic influences of beaver dams and failures of beaver dams. (2005) Geomorphology, 71 (1-2), pp. 48-60. abstract and contents


 * • Hill, E. 1982. Beaver: Castor Canadensis. Pages 256–281. in Chapman, J. A. and G. A. Feldhamer, editors. (eds.). Wild Mammals of North America: Biology, Management, and Economics Johns Hopkins University Press. Baltimore, Maryland.


 * • Ingle-Sidorowicz, H. M. 1982. Beaver increase in Ontario: Result of changing environment. Mammalia 46:167–175. Abstract


 * • Naiman, R. J., C. A. Johnston, and J. C. Kelley. 1988. Alteration of North American Streams by Beaver. BioScience 38:753–761. abstract


 * • Rosell, F., O. Bozsér, P. Collen, and H. Parker. 2005. Ecological impact of beavers Castor fiber and Castor canadensis and their ability to modify ecosystems. Mammal Review 35:248–276. abstract


 * • Skewes, O., et al., bundance and distribution of American beaver, Castor canadensis in Tierra del Fuego and Navarino islands, Chile. European Journal of Wildlife Research.  Volume 52, Issue 4, pages 292 - 296 (2006-12-01) abstract

Beavers (European)

 * • Campbell, R.D., Rosell, F., Nolet, B.A., and Dijkstra, V.A.A. 2005. Territory and group sizes in Eurasian beavers (Castor fiber): echoes of settlement and reproduction? Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 58: 597–607. abstract and 1st page


 * • Gaywood M., Batty, D., and Galbraith, C.. Reintroducing the European Beaver in Britain August 2008 British Wildlife 381 Full PDF


 * • Halley, D.J., and Rosell, F. 2002. The beaver’s reconquest of Eurasia: status, population development and management of a conservation success. Mammal Rev. 32: 153–178. abstract


 * • Macdonald, D.W., Tattersall, F.H., Brown, E.D., and Balharry, D. 1995. Reintroducing the European beaver to Britain: nostalgic meddling or restoring biodiversity? Mammal Rev. 25: 161–200. abstract


 * • Nolet, B.A., and Rosell, F. 1998. Comeback of the beaver (Castor fiber): an overview of old and new problems. Biol. Conserv. 83: 165–173. abstract


 * • Parker, H., Rosell F., and Mysterud, A., Harvesting of males delays female breeding in a socially monogamous mammal. the beaver. Biol. Lett. (February 22 2007) 3:107-109; doi:10.1098/rsbl.2006.0563 Full PDF.


 * • Pinto, B. Santos, M. J.  and Rosell. F.  Habitat selection of the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) near its carrying capacity: an example from Norway.  Can. J. Zool. 87(4): 317–325 (2009)  Published by NRC Research Press abstract


 * • Rosell, F., O. Bozsér, P. Collen, and H. Parker. 2005. Ecological impact of beavers Castor fiber and Castor canadensis and their ability to modify ecosystems. Mammal Review 35:248–276. abstract

Beaver, Mountain (Aplodontia rufa)

 * • Arjo, W.W. Et Al. Mountain beaver home ranges, habitat use, and population dynamics in Washington.  Canadian journal of zoology: Revue canadienne de zoologie. 2007 Mar., v. 85, no. 3, p. 328-337.  Abstract and Full PDF

Cavies ( Guinea Pigs )

 * • no ISBN.










 * • Chapter online for the Nutrient Requirements of the Guinea Pig.



Chinchillas








Degus

 * • [Google Books]


 * •   [Google Preview]

Gerbils

 * • Agren, Zhou and Zhong, Ecology and social behaviour of Mongolian gerbils, Meriones unguicalatus, at Xilinhot, Inner Mongolia, China, Anim Behav 37 (1989), pp. 11–27. abstract


 * •  [Google Books] Tags: History of domestic gerbils, Genetic stocks, Diseases.




 * •  [Google Books] Tags: History of domestic gerbils, husbandry, behaviour, anatomy, health and diseases


 * •  6th Happiness (talk) 00:16, 4 July 2009 (UTC)


 * • Chapter online for the Nutrient Requirements of the Gerbil.  ISBN: 978-0-309-05126-2




 * • Pendergrass M, and Thiessen D.. Sandbathing is thermoregulatory in the mongolian gerbil, Meriones unguiculatus. Behavioral and Neural Biology, Volume 37, Issue 1, January 1983, Pages 125-133.   http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0163-1047(83)91131-7




 * •  Google Books Tags: Donald Robinson, Gerbils as pets, Showing gerbils, History of the fancy, History of laboratory gerbil lines, American Gerbil Society, memoir.


 * • Scheibler, Weinandy and Gattermann. Social categories in families of Mongolian gerbils.  Physiology & Behavior, Volume 81, Issue 3, May 2004, Pages 455-464. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2004.02.011


 * • Scheibler et al. Burrow systems of the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus Milne Edwards, 1867). Mammalian Biology - Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, Volume 71, Issue 3, 11 May 2006, Pages 178-182. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mambio.2005.11.007


 * • Stuermer et al. Intraspecific Allometric Comparison of Laboratory Gerbils with Mongolian Gerbils Trapped in the Wild Indicates Domestication in Meriones unguiculatus.  Zoologischer Anzeiger, Volume 242, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 249-266 abstract  - differences in wild vs lab populations.


 * • Liu, Wan, and Zhong.  Population dynamics of the Mongolian gerbils: Seasonal patterns and interactions among density, reproduction and climate. Journal of Arid Environments, Volume 68, Issue 3, February 2007, Pages 383-397.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2006.07.002

Hamsters (Syrian)



 * •  [Google Books] Tags: History of domestic gerbils, husbandry, behaviour, anatomy, health and diseases




 * • Chapter online for the Nutrient Requirements of the Hamster.



Kangaroo Rats

 * • Borchelt, P.L. et al. An analysis of sandbathing and grooming in the kangaroo rat (Dipodomys merriami), Animal Behavior 24 (1976), pp. 347–353. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0003-3472(76)80042-5

Mice (domestic)





 * •  [Google Books Preview].  Tags: Biological Features, Husbandry, Health, Veterinary Care, Laboratory Mice, Experimental Methodology.


 * • Chapter online for the Nutrient Requirements of the Mouse.









Prairie Dogs

 * • [Google Books]

Rats (R. norvegicus)

 * • [Google Books] Tags: central nervous system, laboratory rats, behaviour, learning and intelligence,  instinct, range and territory, social behaviour, territory and conflict, domestication, diseases, natural history, wild rats, ... (I have the 1963 1st ed so pg's maybe different)


 * • Google Books Tags: Bandicota bengalensis, Bandicota indica, allogrooming, anthropomorphism, behaviour,  learning and intelligence, black death, black rat, brown rat, cotton rat, bush rat, diet, domestication, diseases, Rattus argentiventer, Rattus exulans, Rattus lutreolus, Rattus meltada.


 * • [Google Books]


 * • Tags: culture, fiction, history. [Google Books]




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 * • tags: folklore, culture, fiction, history.




 * • Chapter online for the Nutrient Requirements of the Rat.








 * •   [Google Preview]   Tags: Ethical and Legal Perspectives, Stocks and Strains, Husbandry, Diseases




 * •  (First Edition, no isbn)

Squirrels

 * •  [Google Books]

Voles

 * • Chapter online for the Nutrient Requirements of the Vole.  ISBN: 978-0-309-05126-2 (Especially the prairie vole (M. ochrogaster), the meadow vole (M. pennsylvanicus), and the pine vole (M. (Pitymys) pinetorum)).