Giant Rat Species Found in Indonesia

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December 17, 2007—Mammal expert Martua Sinaga holds a 3-pound (1.4-kilogram) rat that may be a species new to science. The rat was found in the remote Foja Mountains of western New Guinea, Indonesia, on a June 2007 expedition, experts announced yesterday.

Researchers from Conservation International and the Indonesia Institute of Science had previously discovered several new species of plants and animals during a trip to the pristine rain forest region in 2005.

When the team returned to the Fojas this summer, they found the rat along with a pygmy possum that could also be a previously unrecorded species.

"The giant rat is about five times the size of a typical city rat," Kristofer Helgen, a scientist with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., said in a press statement. "With no fear of humans, it apparently came into the camp several times during the trip."

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ROOOOOOOOOOOGER!!!!!!

dlowan wrote:

ROOOOOOOOOOOGER!!!!!!

I would never have done that, you ... you ... hare.

Nothing like mailing somebody a box with a giant rat in it to say you care.

our rodents in this hemisphere would kick this guys ass.

Perhaps he has a future at A2K. More power in those legs than in the hamsters'.

you guys are so gullible. Its not a real rat.

The term "rat" is also used in the names of other small mammals which are not true rats. Examples include the North American pack rats, a number of species loosely called kangaroo rats, and others. Rats such as the Bandicoot rat Bandicota bengalensis are murine rodents related to true rats, but are not members of the genus Rattus. The widely distributed and problematic commensal species of rats are a minority in this diverse genus. Many species of rats are island endemics and some have become endangered due to habitat loss or competition with the Brown, Black or Polynesian rat.

Steve 41oo wrote:

you guys are so gullible. Its not a real rat.

Isn't it? By golly i really was sucked in, chewed up and spat out wasn't I.

dadpad wrote:

Steve 41oo wrote:

you guys are so gullible. Its not a real rat.

Isn't it? By golly i really was sucked in, chewed up and spat out wasn't I.

no its a glove puppet. He's got his hand up its ass.

Steve 41oo wrote:

dadpad wrote:

Steve 41oo wrote:

you guys are so gullible. Its not a real rat.

Isn't it? By golly i really was sucked in, chewed up and spat out wasn't I.

no its a glove puppet. He's got his hand up its ass.

isn't

dlowan wrote:

Steve 41oo wrote:

dadpad wrote:

Steve 41oo wrote:

you guys are so gullible. Its not a real rat.

Isn't it? By golly i really was sucked in, chewed up and spat out wasn't I.

no its a glove puppet. He's got his hand up its ass.

isn't

come on would you do that to a rat that big if it was real?