Fittingly for a movie borrowing its title from the 1987 fairy tale comedy "The Princess Bride," the nutria documentary "Rodents of Unusual Size" starts with a once-upon-a-time. Whether it concludes ...
The trio of filmmakers behind the Independent Lens film Rodents of Unusual Size — Jeff Springer, Chris Metzler and Quinn Costello — have previously captured unique environmental stories with a very ...
Rodents are a diverse group of small to medium-sized mammals characterized by a single pair of constantly growing incisors in both the upper and lower jaws. They typically have robust bodies, short limbs, and long tails. As members of the order Rodentia, they constitute about 40% of all mammalian species, including some well-known animals like mice, rats, squirrels, prairie dogs, porcupines ...
With over 2000 living species placed in about 30 families, rodents are by far the largest order of mammals, at least in terms of number of taxa (well over 40% of mammalian species belong to the order Rodentia!). Rodents range in size from pygmy mice weighing 5 gms to capybaras, the largest of which weigh over 70 kg. They are found around the world except in Antarctica, New Zealand, and on some ...