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After a gestation period of about 28 days, two to five young are born,... Two to five young are born after a gestation of about 28 days and they reach sexual maturity....? Or, animals reach sexual maturity at ... and after a gestation period of about 28 days, two to five young are born..... (might
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Yes; rodents are not like birds which can just get lost while flying about, so when someone finds a rat somewhere, it means the area is part of the distribution. Musser et al. (1998, p. 157) also explicitly say the distribution starts in northwestern Costa
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It's not necessarily the hair that gives the color, and I don't see the problem with "sparsely haired"; it's not an unprecedented way to describe rice rat tails (Weksler et al., 2006, p. 3, also use it), and it doesn't seem overly technical to
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Apparently. Measurements are usually taken in the field, because preserved skins may shrink or do other weird things, and the people who collected the sample in
Ecuador apparently had a protocol that did not include measuring the
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section is stubby - if there is anything at all that can be added that'd be very helpful (any confirmation that numbers appear to be constant/increasing etc. no threats from intriduced spp.) if not never mind.
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Fixed the tense of that sentence. I recall that it complicated population estimates in
Fleming's study, but I think we can just keep it as a fact from their biology. Why it is so, Fleming didn't say.
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sparsely haired... there's a better way to say that. But I don't know what it is. The tail is almost as long as the head, with little hair; the hair it has is brown on top and white underneath...?
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Talamanca here refers to (discussed in Musser et al. 1998), and it's most likely a village that is apparently not mentioned on Knowledge, so I kept it unlinked.
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Everyone asks this. :-) The problem is that "Talamanca" has several meanings and the one meant here is a small village that does not appear in
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has multiple meanings, and the one intended here (fide Musser et al., 1998, who discuss it) is a village that doesn't seem to be anywhere on
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Marine mammals can swim about, and sea lions in particular are common in captivity; neither is true for rice rats. Thanks for supporting.
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more later. Oh, I made a couple of minor tweaks. If I messed it up, please forgive me and revert.
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