Sentences with phrase «wear down their teeth at»

Rabbits wear down their teeth at a rate of about 3 mm per week.

A correct diet is essential to your rabbit's and problems can occur particularly if your pet is not eating enough fibre, in the form of hay, grass and vegetables, to wear down the teeth at a sufficient rate.

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Researchers had assumed that the size difference was due to the fact that male and female teeth wore down at different rates, perhaps because of different eating habits between the sexes.

Obviously, this is not something that would happen as long as we cook our food and don't wear down our teeth,» says co-senior author Jukka Jernvall, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Helsinki, in Finland.

Even chewing timothy hay helps wear the teeth down at a steady rate.

Several of our older dogs have worn their teeth down over years of bite work and carrying around toys, so ground RMBs may be an option for them at some point.

A rabbit's teeth are continuously growing but the daily act of chewing food as well as chewing on wooden blocks, branches and toys helps them wear down at a rate equal to their growth.

Popular belief suggests that teeth grow at a defined rate and therefore must be worn down before they overgrow and cause dental problems.

As the horse ages, his teeth wear down at various lengths or even begin to fall out.