What is the most intelligent rodent?

[the fox]

I love my rats.

 

[OgreMkV]

squirrels arent rodents, theyre pachyderms.
Rodents = mammals
Humans = mammals
Rodents = Humans
Humans are the smartest rodents...?

I know which is the smartest, I used to keep them as pets.

Rodents all have continuously growing gnawing teeth, are primarily herbivores or granivores and are not hares/rabbits/pikas (lagomorph family). Raccoons have canine-like teeth adapted to eating everything - opossums have that & they've pouches too (N.A.'s only marsupial).

Maybe you're confusing "Rodent" w/ "Varmint"?

Taxonomically speaking... rodents and lagomorphs belong to the same clade (Glires). It can be argued that clade Glires is not a unique taxonomic entity and that rabbits and hares are indeed considered rodents. It can also be argued that lagomorphs are not rodentia. It's 50/50 and pick 'em.

However, Squirrels ARE rodents.

A brief list of the families of order rodentia: (from Wiki)

• Family Anomaluridae: scaly-tailed squirrels
• Family Pedetidae: springhares
• Family Castoridae: beavers
• Family Geomyidae: pocket gophers (true gophers)
• Family Heteromyidae: kangaroo rats and kangaroo mice
• Family Bathyergidae: African mole rats
• Family Erethizontidae: New World porcupines
• Family Hystricidae: Old World porcupines
• Family Abrocomidae: chinchilla rats
• Family Capromyidae: hutias
• Family Caviidae: cavies, including guinea pigs
• Family Chinchillidae: chinchillas and viscachas
• Family Ctenomyidae: tuco-tucos
• Family Dasyproctidae: agoutis
• Family Dinomyidae: pacaranas
• Family Echimyidae: spiny rats
• Family Hydrochoeridae: capybara
• Family Myocastoridae: nutria
• Family Calomyscidae: mouse-like hamsters
• Family Cricetidae: hamsters, New World rats and mice, voles
• Family Muridae: true mice and rats, gerbils, spiny mice, crested rat
• Family Nesomyidae: climbing mice, rock mice, white-tailed rat, Malagasy rats and mice
• Family Platacanthomyidae: spiny dormice
• Family Spalacidae: mole rats, bamboo rats, and zokors
• Family Aplodontiidae: mountain beaver
• Family Gliridae (also Myoxidae, Muscardinidae): dormice
• Family Sciuridae: squirrels, including chipmunks, prairie dogs, & marmots

This isn't all of them, but most of them. The last family includes squirrels.

 

[the fox]

Ok honestly i could not care more weather they are rodents or not.