Monday, December 17, 2007

ROUS's Found!


Bruce M. Beehler / Conservation International

I just had to say it: Rodents Of Unusual Size found in Indonesia.

“The giant rat is about five times the size of a typical city rat,” said Kristofer Helgen, a scientist with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. “With no fear of humans, it apparently came into the camp several times during the trip.”

Now, the question comes, was there a fire swamp anywhere nearby?

2 comments:

  1. But do they taste like chicken?

    Sven

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  2. i saw this on CNN today as i was walking into my office... giant rats and tiny somethings... what was it?

    oh. possums! or maybe the researchers just had too much baileys in their coffee that morning and got the possums and rats mixed up.

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