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Some facts about the
Giant rat
Adult weight : 1.3 kg (2.86 lbs)
Maximum longevity : 7 years
Litter size : 1
Giant rat
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Sciurognathi
Family : Muridae
Subfamily : Cricetomyinae
Species : Cricetomys emini
The Giant rat is listed as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category, on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Namings for the giant rat
A young / baby of a giant rat is called a 'kitten, nestling, pinkie or pup'. The females are called 'doe' and males 'buck'. A giant rat group is called a 'colony, horde, pack, plague or swarm'.Countries
Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Congo, Republic of the, Cote d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo and Uganda
Facts about the giant rat
A couple of days after our discussion, Sid called me back and pronounced "the Giant Rat is a Pirate Ship! (Full text)
Giant Rats are fruity jelly shaped rats, gummy and tasty - just the thing to give your friends a fright! (Full text)
The Malagasy giant rat is a large, rotund, rabbit-like rodent with conspicuous large ears . (Full text)
These giant rats are actually nutria, which are aquatic members of the rodent family. (Full text)
to import from some parts of Africa, captive bred giant rats are the majority of what is available . (Full text)
As they are now illegal to import from some parts of Africa, captive bred giant rats are the majority of what is available. (Full text)
Giant rats are slow moving and docile when not alerted. (Full text)
(Los Angeles, CA USA) "Giant Rat" is the Firesign's Sherlock Holmes parody, originally relased in 1974. (Full text)
Web); Malagasy Giant Rat #2 (138 Kb JPEG) The Malagasy giant rat is a large, rotund, rabbit-like rodent with conspicuous large ears. (Full text)
Poncelet's giant rat is known only from the islands of Bougainville (Papua New Guinea) and Choiseul (Solomon Islands). (Full text)
The Fossorial Giant Rat is rare to see in the wild. (Full text)
The South American Giant Rat is the largest living rat. (Full text)
It is midnight, there are distant bangs and surprisingly the giant rats are eating away at some other soldiers' boots. (Full text)
He's made it so that the Giant Rats are actually giant! (Full text)
This giant rat is a professional grade stage prop made of latex rubber. (Full text)
The head and body length of the adult Giant Rat is around 2. (Full text)
Description: The giant variety of the disease-ridden vermin known as rats is much more ferocious, cunning and larger and, while alone giant rats are not a great threat to an experienced adventurer, in packs they can be quite deadly. (Full text)