Sunday, November 26, 2017

BUSH RAT

Photographed at Kingfisher Park, Julatten, Queensland, November 2017
89              BUSH RAT               Rattus fuscipes

AUSTRALIA               89

Widespread and common marsupial in coastal e. and s. Australiafrom Rockhampton (Q) to Timboon (Vic); from e. of Portland (Vic) to Eyre peninsula and Kangaroo Island (SA); sw WA from Jurien bay to israelite Bay. Lives in lowland and montane forest, southern groups live in drier country. Nocturnal terrestrial, shy, omnivorous, eats mostly plants, seed, fungi, arthropods.



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