The posterior vertical or ascending part of dentary carries the articular surface or condyle for articulation with the glenoid cavity of squamosal. In front of the condyle is the compressed coronoid process. On the postero-lateral surface of the mandible is present a slight depression, called messenteric fossa, in which are attached large masseter muscle. Weber, Justus; Peng, Haiyong; Rader, Christoph (2017). "From rabbit antibody repertoires to rabbit monoclonal antibodies". Experimental & Molecular Medicine. Nature Portfolio. 49 (3): e305. doi: 10.1038/emm.2017.23. ISSN 2092-6413. PMC 5382564. PMID 28336958. S2CID 4066391. The auditory capsules are found closely fused with the postero-lateral region of the cranial region of the skull. Each capsule is formed by the fusion of two bones, the periotic and tympanic, and encloses the internal ear. Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development; Agriculture and Food Division; Pest and Disease Information Service (PaDIS). "Rabbit control: fumigation". agric.wa.gov.au. Government of Western Australia . Retrieved 25 September 2021. The bone of the upper-arm is the humerus, which is a long bone having a proximal large rounded head for the articulation in the glenoid cavity of scapula. The proximal end of the humerus near the head is provided with a bicipital groove in between the two tuberosities (greater and lesser) for the attachment of muscles.

You will not find the muzzle in a rabbit. The upper lip is fleshy and divided into two halves. The tongue of a rabbit is a muscular organ and comparatively thin. The tip of the tongue is blunt, and there are no torus linguae. It is attached by muscle to the hyoid apparatus and bears numerous taste buds. You will find filiform, fungiform, vallate, and foliate papillae. There is a broad and white color prominence at the root of the tongue. Rabbit habitats include meadows, woods, forests, grasslands, deserts and wetlands. [67] While some rabbits live solitary lives, others live in groups, and the best known species, the European rabbit, lives in burrows, or rabbit holes. A group of burrows is called a warren. [67] The scro-tuem is dividing into two parts and is located at the caudal inguinal region. Within the scrotal sacs, the rabbit reproductive glands (testis) are located. You will find it on the outside of the body wall, ventral and cranial to the an-eus. The upper part is the neural canal for the passage of spinal cord and lower part is occupied by the odontoid process of the axis. Two large concave occipital facets are present in the anterior face of the altas for articulation with the occipital condyles of the skull.

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a b c d e Johnson-Delaney, Cathy A.; Orosz, Susan E. (2011). "Rabbit Respiratory System: Clinical Anatomy, Physiology and Disease". Veterinary Clinics of North America: Exotic Animal Practice. 14 (2): 257–266. doi: 10.1016/j.cvex.2011.03.002. PMID 21601814. Adult badgers have relatively short canines, a crest along the top of the skull and the lower jaw cannot be detached; badger skulls less than a year old have no crest and the lower jaw is not attached to the skull. There is a full guide on the anatomical structure of the animal heart here in anatomy learner. You might also learn the essential vessels from the rabbit’s circulatory anatomy. Tall, narrow nuchal crest. Similar to that of a deer, but completely different from the wide nuchal crests of carnivores such as coyotes.

Four upper incisors. The front pair of incisors resembles those of a rodent, but there is a second, smaller pair hidden behind them. Rodents don't have these. The thorax of rabbit is bounded mid-ventrally by the sternum which consists of five elongated bony pieces, known as sternebrae. Thus, the sternebrae together constitute the main body of the sternum, called mesosternum. The first anterior most sternebra is the longest and called manubrium or presternum.The bone of the thigh is the femur which is a long bone with a flattened proximal end. Its flattened proximal end bears a rounded smooth head towards the inner side for the articulation with the ac This segment also consists of five bones, a presphenoid ventrally, two orbitosphenoids one on either side and two frontals dorsally. Large angle on mandible for attachment of the large masseter muscles that are used for sideways grinding of food. Unlike the Carnivora skulls, there is no hook-shaped angular process, just a large angle of the jaw.

There are two elongated ovaries along the dorsal wall and posterior to the kidney. You will find a slender flexuous fallopian tube in rabbit female anatomy. The uterus of a rabbit is a typical duplex type. It has the same parts –horns, body, and cervix as you found in other animals. Squirrel skulls are easily told from rat skulls by the broader snout. Mole skulls Mole Skull/Credit: Getty Images Narrow nuchal crest. Provides an attachment point for a nuchal ligament and for muscles that hold the head up, but does not allow for the large muscles that allow for tearing sideways movements in Carnivora.

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These articulate with the ilia of pelvic girdle. This joint is called sacro-iliac joint. Hypapophyses and anapophyses are absent and the metapophyses are relatively small. The sacro-iliac joint provides strength to the pelvic girdle and the vertebral column at the time of throwing the body forward when the hindlimbs are straightened. The anterior surface of the humerus below the head has a projection called deltoid ridge for the attachment of muscles. The distal end of the humerus is provided with a pulley-like trochlea for articulation with ulna. Just above trochlea are present two fossae (depressions)-anterior smaller is coracoid fossa and posterior larger is olecranon fossa. Both the fossae communicate with each other through a supra-trochlear foramen. It is a small, median wedge-like, triangular bone on the dorsal side in between parietals and supraoccipital. Jerez, Sara (23 February 2023). " "Es cierto": Experto confirma que conejos y otros animales en llamas sí pueden propagar incendios". Radio Bío-Bío (in Spanish) . Retrieved 23 February 2023. Sagittal crest: a ridge along the top of the head, formed where the parietal bones from each side meet in the middle. The sagittal crest forms an attachment point for extra-large temporalis muscles. The temporalis is one of the main muscles responsible for biting and chewing; it extends from the sagittal crest down to the coronoid process. An animal with a powerful bite is likely to have large temporalis muscles, a sagittal crest, and large coronoid processes. Many mammals do not have a sagittal crest; the muscles simply attach to the sides of the skull.