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Rattus rattus

Black Rat at Yarralumla, ACT

Rattus rattus at Yarralumla, ACT - 16 Jan 2022
Rattus rattus at Yarralumla, ACT - 16 Jan 2022
Rattus rattus at Yarralumla, ACT - 16 Jan 2022
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Identification history

Rattus rattus 18 Jan 2022 MichaelMulvaney
Unidentified 17 Jan 2022 ConBoekel

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Found freshly dead on track. Tail damaged so presumably died in some sort of violent encounter.

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DonFletcher wrote:
   17 Jan 2022
ID as Black Rat, rather than Brown Rat or Bush Rat, based on: pointed muzzle, white underside, no elongated posthallucal pad, longish tail and longish ears. More confident ID as R. rattus would be possible if tail could be seen to be clearly longer than head and body and if ear lobe could be pressed forward past the mid-point of the eye.

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  • Rattus rattus Scientific name
  • Black Rat Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Exotic
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 1019.83m Recorded at altitude
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