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whiskers are long. The ears are large, oval, and set at an oblique angle. The dorsal fur is long and woolly, slate grey tinged with yellow. The underparts are white, the limbs are grey and the upper sides of the broad feet are white. The long tail is clad in black scales and black bristles, and tipped with black hairs.
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that oozes from the branches where the rats create grooves in the bark. The rats are most active in the first few hours of the night and then again in the hours before dawn, and forage in the upper canopy where few other rodents are to be found. It seldom descends to the ground and has no need to
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trees where there are the crevices and holes it needs for its nest, but it also builds nests in the forks of branches or under slabs of bark; there may be several nests in one tree, not all of them occupied. The nest is a bulky affair of grass, leaves and twigs and may be as much as 30 cm
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The black-tailed tree rat is a medium-sized rodent with a head-and body length of about 135 mm (5 in) and a tail of about 145 mm (6 in). The sides of the face are grey, and a dark band extends from the muzzle to around the eyes and below the ears. The eyes are large and the
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to southwestern Africa. Its range includes southwestern Angola, Namibia, Botswana and northwestern South Africa. It inhabits dry savanna, and thorny scrubland with dense patches of woodland or scattered trees such as
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607:Skinner, J.D.; Chimimba, Christian T. (2005).
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1224:Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat (
1105:Large-toothed hairy-tailed rat (
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1192:White-bellied Luzon tree rat (
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1815:Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas
1183:Short-footed Luzon tree rat (
1123:Hamiguitan hairy-tailed rat (
369:The black-tailed tree rat is
285:F. Petter and Beaufort, 1960
697:Extant species of subfamily
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1351:Trefoil-toothed giant rat (
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1553:Stenocephalomys–Xeromys
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1423:Elegant margareta rat (
990:Black-tailed tree rat (
868:Ethiopian thicket rat (
841:Ruwenzori thicket rat (
787:Bunting's thicket rat (
308:black-tailed acacia rat
1432:Little margareta rat (
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557:"Superfamily Muroidea"
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24:Black-tailed tree rat
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886:Selous thicket rat (
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507:Thallomys nigricauda
317:Thallomys nigricauda
184:Thallomys nigricauda
1800:Mammals of Botswana
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832:Giant thicket rat (
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1523:Aethomys–Chrotomys
1473:Malayan tree rat (
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1008:Shortridge's rat (
771:Arid thicket rat (
432:Vachellia erioloba
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