Vole

• aka field mice
• Archaeologists use their teeth to date strata 😮
• An highly empathetic rodent 😌

Pacarana

• Stripey/spotty pattern (cool)
• Holds food in hands (cute)
• Hangs out in trees (climby)

Gerbil

• Very little 🥺
• Come in lots of different colours and patterns
• Cute

Hamster

• Big cheeks
• Hampster Dance, Hamtaro, Hamsterball…
• A very familiar rodent :-)

Prehensile-tailed Porcupine

• Huge cartoon snoot
• Expert tree climber
• Makes crazy cute noises
• Seriously, check these guys out!

Agouti

• Cool little hands
• Big long legs
• Cute wee ears

Prairie Dog

• Not technically a dog
• Good at barking though!
• Probably the kissiest rodent 🥰

Hutia

• Well, hutia think this is!
• Good size
• Most complex stomach of any rodent 🤩

Common Mole Rat

• This one’s got clothes!
• Big, big chompers
• Digging experts

Chinchilla

• Fluffy icon
• Densest fur of any land-dwelling mammal
• Stay clean by bathing… in dust!?

Yellow-Bellied Marmot

• Live together in burrow colonies
• Sleep during the winter
• Not cowards 😤

Souslik

• Looooves seeds
• Appreciates the finer things
• Yells to warn the squad about predators

Viscacha

• Bushy tail
• Sleepy eyes
• Even their predators are adorable^[1] 😳

Laotian Rock Rat

• Textbook Lazarus taxon
• Big fluffy tail
• Weird long head

Red and White Giant Flying Squirrel

• 400m glide distance
• 4000g body weight
• 40000% chance of stealing your man

Lesser Capybara

• Just a wee bit smaller than your standard capybara
• Used to be considered a subspecies
• Still a 5-star rodent

Red Squirrel

• National mammal of Demark 
• Good at saving food for later
• Okay at finding the saved food later

Mara

• Big! ^45cm
• Good at jumping
• South American

Naked Mole Rat

• Clothes? Not on this rodent!
• Probably beautiful on the inside?
• The longest living rodent (up to 32 years!!)

Jerboa

• Legs for days
• Ears for weeks
• Got a big zig-zag tail like a Pikachu

Springhare

• Loves to hop around
• Glows under a blacklight
• Party icon

Hopping Mouse

• hop hop hop
• hop
• hop hop

Horned Gopher

• Prehistoric rodent
• Smallest horned mammal on record
• Probably helped open bottles in Flintstones-time
• RIP, what a life lived

Mountain Beaver

• Love to stay at home
• Don’t build dams or slap big tails around like the other beavers
• More closely related to squirrels

Gundi

• Really really cute
• Called “comb rats” for the little bristles on their back feet
• Can get into little gaps with their flexible ribs

Furret

• he walcc
• Stubby arms but moves fast
• shape type

Tate's Shrew Rat

• Lives in Sulawesi
• Named after a zoologist/botanist
• Shrewd customer ^{heh heh}

Tufted Titmouse

• Nice plumage
• Very g- uhhh… hmm.
• Um

Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse

• Endangered 🥺
• Good at swimming
• Salty diet

Deer Mouse

• Not to be confused with mouse deer.
• Not to be confused with a mouse regarded with deep affection.
• Not to be confused with an expensive mouse.

Spiny Pocket Mouse

• Spiny
• Pocket
• Mouse

Golden Mouse

• Granivore (eats seeds)
• Can hang upside-down with their tails 😮
• GOLD!!

Computer Mouse

• Tracks movements of the hand
• Very useful rodent
• Comes in lots of different colours and styles

Kangaroo Mouse

• Jumping expert
• Walks on two feet
• ∴ would be great at mouse basketball 

Mickey Mouse

• name a more iconic mouse?!
• Keyblade Master
• gets into a lot of crazy situations

Porcupine

• Basically a little spiny pig
• Lots of cool defensive maneuvers
• Mostly sleep during the day

Groundhog

• aka woodchuck
• likes to sleep
• knows the weather

Beaver

• Into construction
• Eat trees with their big chompers
• Amphibious

Pikachu

• Very cute little dude
• Electricity is his job
• Pretty big for a mouse

Pink Fairy Armadillo

• The smallest armadillo
• Definitely magic
• Not sushi

Capybara

• Noble, wise
• Friend to all
• Amphibious

Rabbit

• Powerful hind legs
• Twitchy nose
• BIG ears
• Honorary rodent