Bushy-tailed Woodrat
Neotoma cinerea · Mammal
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The original pack rat of western North America, from arctic Canada to Arizona and New Mexico: a brown rat with large round ears and a bushy, squirrel-like tail, 28 to 46 cm long, half of it tail. It lives among rocks, on cliffs, in canyons and on talus slopes, and readily moves into abandoned buildings and mines, where it heaps plants and droppings, cemented with crystallised urine, into big middens. It has a strong liking for shiny things and will drop what it carries for a coin or a spoon. It does not hibernate but lives through the winter on its food caches, and drums its hind feet when alarmed.
- Danger
- Harmless
- How it is met
- Alone, by night
- Size
- Tiny
- In winter
- Active in winter
Where it lives
Temperate Conifer Forest, Taiga, Cold Desert, Barrens, Mine
Sources
Open it in Biomes — MGS Toolbox