This produces the most effective gnawing of all the rodent suborders. Most rodents eat a wide range of plant material as well as invertebrates. A few are specialized carnivores. To facilitate the digestion of cellulose rodents have a reletively large cecum where endocybiotic bacteria break down cellulose. This is the same process as in the Lagomorphs .
Rodents are quite intellegent and can master simple tasks when conditioned.
Their sense of smell and heearing are well developed. Rodents are highly social animals and use many of thier senses to comunicate. They frequently live in large agrigations in close proximity, solitary ways of life are asociated with speciesliving in arid grasslands and desert areas. Rodent behavior is as highly adapable as their evolutionary genetics. At low populations individuals may be solitary with territories, but at high frequency they may fall into a socialistic hierarchy.