Rattus rattus at Yarralumla, ACT

Rattus rattus

Black Rat at Yarralumla, ACT

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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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