White-tailed Rat

White-tailed Rat
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see hamster.
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Hamster - Old World rodent, related to the voles, lemmings, and New World mice. There are many hamster species, classified in several genera.

White-Tailed Rat
Africa Mammals Guide Information: The White-Tailed Rat is a thickset, mouse-like rodent with soft wooly fur. The body is coated with a buffy-grey coloured fur...
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Back at the feeders we were able to spotlight the Giant White-tailed Rat.

Various species of monitor lizard (Varanus) are able to climb trees and enter hollows; other predators recorded include the Spotted Wood-owl on Rasa Island in the Philippines, rodents including the Giant White-tailed Rat, ...

Young or adult Cane Toads are eaten by wolf spiders, freshwater crayfish, Estuarine Crocodile, crows, White-faced Heron, kites, Bush Stone-curlew, Tawny Frogmouth, Water Rat and the Giant White-tailed Rat.

Platacanthomyidae (Oriental dormice), Spalacidae (zokors, blind mole-rats, bamboo rats, root rats), Calomyscidae (mouse-like hamsters), Nesomyidae (climbing mice, African rock mice, Malagasy rats and mice, swamp mice, pouched rats, white-tailed rat), ...

See also: Rat, Mice, Diver, Mouse, Hamster