RATS are not known for winning popularity contests but a type newly discovered by Australian and international researchers has been awarded a place in the 2017 top 10 list of previously unknown species.
The omnivorous Slender Rat is unique among its strictly carnivorous relatives and was discovered on Sulawesi Island by Museums Victoria mammalogist Dr Kevin Rowe and his US and Indonesian team which was helped to a remote rainforest area by Rantepangko villagers.
Selected from a field of 18,000 new species of animals and plants discovered across the world in the past 12 months, the Slender Rat was included on the College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s Top 10 New Species for 2017 “not so much for its rattiness but for the -read more
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