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The Gambian pouched rat (Cricetomys gambianus), also commonly known as the African giant pouched rat, is a species of nocturnal pouched rat of the giant pouched rat genus Cricetomys, in the family Nesomyidae. It is among the largest muroids in the world, growing to about 0.9 m (3 ft) long, including the tail, which makes up half of its total ...
Giant pouched rats are only distantly related to the true rats, although until recently they had been placed in the same family, Muridae. [1] Recent molecular studies, however, place them in the family Nesomyidae, part of an ancient radiation of African and Malagasy muroids. The name "pouched rat" refers to their large cheek pouches. The ...
Subfamily Cricetomyinae - pouched rats Genus Beamys. Lesser hamster-rat, Beamys hindei; Greater hamster-rat, Beamys major; Genus Cricetomys - giant pouched rats Southern giant pouched rat, Cricetomys ansorgei; Gambian pouched rat, Cricetomys gambianus; Emin's pouched rat, Cricetomys emini; Kivu giant pouched rat, Cricetomys kivuensis
The African giant pouched rat has been the most successful rodent trained and overseen by a Belgian nonprofit, APOPO, to find land mines and alert its human handlers so the explosives can be ...
Non-profit APOPO says it has trained rats to sniff out elephant tusks, rhino horns, pangolin scales and other wildlife products that are trafficked out of Africa. How giant rodents could rat on ...
Eight giant African pouched rats were able to detect four wildlife samples from 146 non-target items during this four-year study.
Gambian pouched rat; Gambian sun squirrel; Giant pouched rat; Giant thicket rat; Gracile tateril; Gray climbing mouse; Gray spiny mouse; Gray-headed thicket rat; Greater cane rat; Griselda's striped grass mouse
Mountain giant Sunda rat, Sundamys infraluteus; Giant cloud rats, southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat Phloeomys cumingi and northern Luzon giant cloud rat Phloeomys pallidus; White-eared giant rats, western white-eared giant rat, Hyomys dammermani and eastern white-eared giant rat Hyomys goliath; Woolly rats, genus Mallomys; Large bamboo ...