Australia's native Bush Rat: Rattus fuscipes
Автор: Werrong Lane
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The Bush Rat (Rattus fuscipes) is the most common of Australia's 54 native rodent species. It evolved from a wave of rodent immigrants from Asia that arrived between 4 and 3 million years ago.
They're found primarily in the coastal regions of Australia from North Queensland, through New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, with populations in Western Australia as far north as Kalbarri.
Charles Darwin himself was the first European naturalist to notice, as late as 1836 – almost half a century after European settlement – that the Bush Rat was a distinct species.
CORRECTION: What I identify, towards the end of this video, as an Antechinus, is certainly a White-footed Dunnart, NOT an Antechinus. The two tiny, closely-related, marsupials are very similar.
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