Myocastor coypus (Camargue) – Rodentia – Myocastoridae – It can reach a weight of 12 to 14 kg! It lives in burrows alongside stretches of water. They waste close to 90% of the river plants they feed on eating only the stems, a destructive feeding and burrowing behavior but… that is not the full extent […]
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![The Dassie Rat - an unique rodent The Dassie Rat – an unique rodent](https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Rat-Dassie-Erongo-Mountains-Namibia-AR-52-low.jpg)
The Dassie Rat – an unique rodent
The Dassie Rat (Petromus typicus) is endemic to the Southwest Arid Zone of Africa. Their range encompasses northwestern South Africa (Northern Cape Province), central and western Namibia and southwestern Angola. These cute, squirrel-like, long tailed rodents occur regularly and sometimes commonly in rocky areas within this vast swathe of desert and semi-desert land. What makes […]