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Allegheny woodrats prefer rocky outcrops associated with mountain ridges such as cliffs, caves, talus slopes, and even mines. This is mostly true for Pennsylvania and Maryland. In Virginia and West Virginia, woodrats are found on ridges, but also on side slopes in caves and talus (boulders and breakdown) fields.
The species is found in primary, secondary and disturbed forest over a wide range of elevations. [1] Its head and body length is 41–45 cm (16–17.5 in) and its tail length is 33–70 cm (13–27.5 in). These dimensions are about twice as large as those of a typical brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), which suggests about eight times the body mass.
Rice rats in the Florida Keys occasionally climb in vegetation, but never higher than 90 cm (3.0 ft). [149] Marsh rice rats are very clean and extensively groom themselves, perhaps to keep their fur water-repellent. [150] They are aggressive towards conspecifics and emit high-pitched squeaks while fighting. [74]
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The creatures — “one of the world’s rarest rodents” — is at least two times the size of common rats, researchers said. ‘Giant coconut-cracking rat’ photographed for first time in ...
Eight giant African pouched rats were able to detect four wildlife samples from 146 non-target items during this four-year study.
Papagomys is a genus of very large rats in the tribe Rattini of the subfamily Murinae, with body masses of 600–2,500 grams (1.3–5.5 lb). [1] It contains two species, which are known only from the Indonesian island of Flores: [2] Flores giant rat Papagomys armandvillei
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