Description: Bushy-tailed woodrats are interesting creatures when they are not wreaking havoc on vehicles and buildings. In addition to natural materials, bushy-tailed woodrats gather tinfoil, bottle caps, broken glass, and other shiny objects. From this insatiable urge to collect comes the nickname pack rat. Cliffs and rock ledges that have been occupied by woodrats for a long time, sometimes hundreds of years, contain black or dark brown deposits that resemble geologic formations. Biologists have humorously named these formations, composed of metamorphosed pack rat droppings and urine, “amberat” and “ratite.” Pollen, leaves, animal bones, and other natural items trapped in the rock like urine formations have been preserved as though in amber for thousands of years. Scientists who study amberat in the arid Southwest and Yellowstone National Park are learning much about changes in plant and animal communities over time. Bushy-tailed woodrats appear to be common on Seedskadee NWR based on evidence they have left behind, but are almost never seen except under the hood of a pickup truck. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS. Date: 12 August 2015, 14:09. Source: Bushy-Tailed Woodrat on Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge. Author: USFWS Mountain-Prairie.
Description: English: Bushy-tailed Jird (Sekeetamys calurus), adult male עברית: יפה זנב, זכר בוגר. Date: 26 January 2012. Source: Own work. Author: Mickey Samuni-Blank.
Description: English: A Spinifex hopping mouse (Notomys alexis) at Sydney Wildlife World, a zoo in Sydney. Date: 16 April 2007, 20:21. Source: Own work. Author: Dcoetzee. Camera location33° 52′ 02.56″ S, 151° 12′ 36.95″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-33.867378; 151.210265.
Description: A hopping mouse is any of about ten different Australian native mice in the genus Notomys. They are rodents, not marsupials, and their ancestors are thought to have arrived from Asia about 5 million years ago. From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopping_mice This is my most viewed image, as of April 2008 over 4000 views!. Date: 29 May 2007, 18:28. Source: Hopping Mice Uploaded by Smokestack Basilisk. Author: Stephen Michael Barnett from Darwin, Australia.
Description: English: Rhipidomys macrurus. Date: between 1850 and 1859 date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1859-00-00T00:00:00Z/9. Source: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49076385#page/166/mode/1up. Author: Expédition dans les parties centrales de l'Amérique du Sud.
Description: English: Leopoldamys sabanus - Long-tailed Giant Rat. Species of rodent. Date: 17 October 2017. Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/11281276. Author: Scott Loarie. Camera location5° 25′ 32.93″ N, 100° 15′ 58.97″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 5.425813; 100.266380. Image shared by iNaturalist user: loarie Licensing[edit] : This file is made available under the Creative CommonsCC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of their rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.enCC0Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedicationfalsefalse. : This image was originally posted to iNaturalist by loarie at https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/11281276. It was reviewed on 23 July 2020 by iNaturalistReviewBot and found to be published under the terms of the Cc-zero license.
