HOARY BAMBOO RAT/Behaviour, Distribution, Habitat, Size, Weight, IUCN stetus
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2y ago
DESCRIPTION: The Hoary Bamboo Rat is much larger than the Bay Bamboo Rat and has grey fur tipped with white, giving it a grizzled or hoary appearance. It has granular foot pads and the female has two teats anteriorly and three posteriorly. BEHAVIOUR: Unknown. DISTRIBUTION: Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura. HABITAT: Foothills and mountainous areas. Size: 25–35 cm IUCN Status: Least Concern ..read more
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LONG-TAILED FIELD MOUSE OR EUROPEAN WOOD MOUSE/Behaviour, Distribution, Habitat, Size, Weight, IUCN stetus
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2y ago
DESCRIPTION: A yellowish brown field mouse, it looks remarkably like the House Mouse except that on closer examination, the feet are white and the long tail is bicoloured: brown on top and pale grey at the bottom. The ventral parts of the body are also grey. The ears are large, rounded and the same colour as the body. The female has three pairs of teats. Some specimens have a yellowish spot on the chest, but this is not frequently seen. The orange- coated upper incisors lack the notch that all Mus species normally have. BEHAVIOUR: Nocturnal, burrowing, gregarious creatures, they cache food in ..read more
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BROWN RAT/Behaviour, Distribution, Habitat, Size, Weight, IUCN stetus
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2y ago
BROWN RAT IUCN/WPA/Indian Status: Least Concern DESCRIPTION: Also called the Norway Rat or Sewer Rat, this is a large, dark brown rat with lighter underparts and feet, small ears, and a tail that is always shorter than its head and body. It has a blunter muzzle in comparison with the common House Rat or Black Rat and, like the Himalayan rats, does not have spines in its fur. The Brown Rat is more terrestrial and less of a climber than the House Rat and frequents wet areas as well. BEHAVIOUR: Females tend to forage in several short bursts, while males forage in fewer and longer periods. DISTR ..read more
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CHESTNUT RAT/Behaviour, Distribution, Habitat, Size, Weight, IUCN stetus
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3y ago
CHESTNUT RAT  DESCRIPTION: India is home to half a dozen species of soft, densely furred, high-altitude rats that are assigned to the genus Niviventer. Nearly all of them are richly coloured on the back, while the underside is white or very pale. The tail is slightly longer than the head and body. Some of the species have spines in the fur, but none of them have guard hairs. The Chestnut Rat has chestnut–brown, tending to reddish upper parts and clear white underparts. Its tail is bicoloured with a dark tip and flexible (N. niviventer has an unfurred tip and holds its tail rather erect ..read more
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INDIAN BUSH RAT/Behaviour, Distribution, Habitat, Size, Weight, IUCN stetus
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3y ago
INDIAN BUSH RAT DESCRIPTION: Slightly smaller than the House Rat, the Indian Bush Rat differs from the former in many ways. A reddish or yellowish brown rodent, it has a long tail that is brownish above and yellowish grey below. The head is vole-like and eyes are large. Its ears are very large and conch-like, and hairy on the outside, a unique characteristic of this rat, as are the naked and black soles of its hind feet. BEHAVIOUR: It burrows under thick bush and makes characteristic pathways from its burrow to its foraging ground. It is arboreal as well as terrestrial by nature and often r ..read more
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BROWN PALM CIVET
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3y ago
 BROWN PALM CIVET DESCRIPTION: Superficially, it looks like the Palm Civet without the markings on the face and body, but is more uniformly chocolate–brown: its head, tail and limbs are darker, the shoulders more buff, and the flanks greyer. The tail is longer with a pale tip in many. Its neck hair grows in the opposite direction to the rest of its fur – an adaptation to deter predators. BEHAVIOUR: Omnivorous, but mostly frugivorous, depending on rainforest fruits. DISTRIBUTION: Western Ghats south of Goa. P.j. jerdoni in Coorg and northern Western Ghats, and P.j. caniscus reported from ..read more
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SMALL INDIAN CIVET
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3y ago
 SMALL INDIAN CIVET DESCRIPTION: The common ring-tailed civet, the Small Indian Civet is buff to grey with dark spots all over its flanks that converge to form three to five lines on its back. The black-and-white ringed tail has 6–10 dark bands and a pale tip. This civet lacks a spinal crest (this and its small size sets it apart from the Large Indian or Malabar Civet) and has a cream throat with two thin, dark bands across it. Its ears are small, rounded and set close to each other on top of the head, more like a cat’s, while its legs are dark and long. The general body proportions, how ..read more
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LARGE INDIAN CIVET
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3y ago
 LARGE INDIAN CIVET   DESCRIPTION: A large doglike civet with a low-slung body accentuated by short legs, the Large Indian Civet is a greyish beast with buff overtones (but less buff than the Small Indian Civet). The coat can be longer in the winters in the northern part of its range. It can be recognized by its distinctive black and white bands on the sides of the neck. The grey face has white patches on the muzzle. It has distinct black spotting on the flanks, dark limbs and a black-and-white banded tail. It has a dark dorsal crest of varying height running from shoulder to tail ..read more
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MALABAR CIVET
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3y ago
 MALABAR CIVET DESCRIPTION: The most endangered civet and possibly the most endangered mammal in India, the Malabar Civet was last reported from Kerala in 1990. It can be told apart from the Small Indian Civet by its much larger size and the dark, erectile crest of hair that runs down its spine, much like that of the Large Indian Civet. Unlike the Large Indian Civet, the dark band runs through to the tip of the tail. The underside of the tail has five black and white bands. The black spots on the grey coat do not form lines or patterns, but are splotched randomly. The Malabar Civet is mo ..read more
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GREY MONGOOSE/Behaviour, Distribution, Habitat, Size, Weight, IUCN stetus
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3y ago
 GREYMONGOOSE DESCRIPTION: The common Indian Grey Mongoose is the famed animal traditionally used in snake and mongoose shows and has been immortalized as Rikki-Tikki-Tavi in Rudyard Kipling’s story. Its tawny grey fur is much more grizzled and coarser than that of other mongooses and individual hairs have 10 alternate dark and light bands. Its small legs are darker than its body, and its tail is as long as its head and body put together. The tip of the tail is never black but pale yellow or white. The amount of ruddiness in the coat varies in different  subspecies, but all animals ..read more
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