Description: Bushy-tailed woodrats are interesting creatures when they are not wreaking havoc on vehicles and buildings. In addition to natural materials, bushy-tailed woodrats gather tinfoil, bottle caps, broken glass, and other shiny objects. From this insatiable urge to collect comes the nickname pack rat. Cliffs and rock ledges that have been occupied by woodrats for a long time, sometimes hundreds of years, contain black or dark brown deposits that resemble geologic formations. Biologists have humorously named these formations, composed of metamorphosed pack rat droppings and urine, “amberat” and “ratite.” Pollen, leaves, animal bones, and other natural items trapped in the rock like urine formations have been preserved as though in amber for thousands of years. Scientists who study amberat in the arid Southwest and Yellowstone National Park are learning much about changes in plant and animal communities over time. Bushy-tailed woodrats appear to be common on Seedskadee NWR based on evidence they have left behind, but are almost never seen except under the hood of a pickup truck. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS. Date: 12 August 2015, 14:09. Source: Bushy-Tailed Woodrat on Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge. Author: USFWS Mountain-Prairie.
Description: English: Rhipidomys macrurus. Date: between 1850 and 1859 date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1859-00-00T00:00:00Z/9. Source: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49076385#page/166/mode/1up. Author: Expédition dans les parties centrales de l'Amérique du Sud.
Description: English: A marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) in marshy vegetation. Judged from the grayish color, this is subspecies palustris or texensis, not one of the Florida forms. Date: before 10 February 2010 date QS:P,+2010-02-10T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+2010-02-10T00:00:00Z/11. Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Author: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (presumably).
Description: English: Slevin's Mouse (Peromyscus slevini). Species of mammal. Date: 26 October 2018. Source: https://www.naturalista.mx/photos/28428878. Author: L. Ernesto Pérez-Montes. Camera location25° 36′ 16″ N, 110° 46′ 55″ WView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 25.604444; -110.781944. Image shared by NaturaLista Mexico user: l_ernesto_perez-montes Licensing[edit] : This file is made available under the Creative CommonsCC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of their rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.enCC0Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedicationfalsefalse. : This image was originally posted to iNaturalist by l_ernesto_perez-montes at https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/28428878. It was reviewed on 2 October 2022 by INaturalistReviewBot and found to be published under the terms of the Cc-zero license. Reason: sha1.
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Description: Synaptomys cooperi. Exhibit Museum of Natural History, University of Michigan, 1109 Geddes Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Date: 27 January 2011, 15:21:07. Source: Self-photographed. Author: Daderot. Permission(Reusing this file): Public domain.
Description: English: e. C-banded chromosomes of the Eversmann's hamster (Allocricetulus eversmanni, 2n = 26) with pericentomeric C-bands on the X and Y chromosomes. Date: 12 October 2011. Source: Graphodatsky, Alexander S; Trifonov, Vladimir A; Stanyon, Roscoe (2011). "The genome diversity and karyotype evolution of mammals". Molecular Cytogenetics 4 (22). Author: Graphodatsky et al. Other versions: : This file has been extracted from another file: Examples of distribution of C-heterochromatin in mammalian chromosomes.jpeg : .
Description: English: en:Sumichrast's vesper rat (Nyctomys sumichrasti). Date: Unknown dateUnknown date, before 1882 (date of publication). Source: Edward R. Alston: Biologia Centrali-Americana. London, 1882. Author: Unknown authorUnknown author, lithography by J. Smit.
Description: English: Singing Vole (Microtus miurus), Hall Island. Date:. Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Author: Morkill, Anne. : This file has been extracted from another file: Microtus miurus.jpg: .