BANDICOOT RAT

giant rat of southern Asia, unrelated to true bandicoots. It is an agricultural pest in the grain crops and gardens of India and Sri Lanka and is known for the piglike grunts it emits when attacked. Bandicoot rats are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Rodentia, family Muridae.

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Mammals of the Pacific World
Book by T. D. Carter, J. E. Hill, G. H. H. Tate; Macmillan, 1945
Subjects: Mammals--Australia, Mammals--Islands Of The Pacific, Marine Mammals--Pacific Ocean
...Fig. 8. Rabbit Bandicoot 22...Upper Right Cheek-teeth of Rice Rat, Black Rat, and Vole...and wombats are diprotodonts; bandicoots, "native cats," "pouched mice...anteaters are polyprotodonts. But bandicoots are almost as closely related...
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The Story of Rats: Their Impact on Us, and Our Impact on Them
Book by S. Anthony Barnett; Allen & Unwin, 2001
Subjects: Human-Animal Relationships, Rats, Rats--Behavior, Rats--Psychology
...true giant, the large bandicoot rat Bandicota indica...black rats, Norways, bandicoot rats and many others...small, multimammate rat Mastomys natalensis...Sri Lanka, and the bandicoot or Indian mole rat shown on page 17...
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A History of the Animal World in the Ancient near East
Book by Billie Jean Collins; Brill, 2002
Subjects: Animals In Art, Animals In Literature, Animals--Religious Aspects, Human-Animal Relationships--Middle East
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Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: The Coevolution of People and Plagues
Book by Christopher Wills; Addison Wesley, 1996
Subjects: Epidemics--History, Yellow Fever
...94 5.2 A rat-infested ward for women at New Yorks Bellevue...their usual haunts, mixing with domestic rat and human populations and triggering an...association with them would be decimated. If the rat population fell dramatically, it might...
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Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment
Book by Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich, John P. Holdren; W. H. Freeman, 1977
Subjects: Human Ecology, Pollution, Population
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The Proto-Oceanic Labiovelars: Some New Observations
Journal article by John Lynch; Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 41, 2002
Subjects: Austronesian languages--Comparative method, Consonants--Comparative method, Phonetics, Acoustic--Comparative method
...m.sup.waj(a,o)(r) bandicoot rat...PCEMP *ma(n)ser marsupial rat...bandicoot...k.o. large rat PCEMP...
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The History of Faunal Terms in Austronesian Languages
Journal article by Robert Blust; Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 41, 2002
Subjects: Austronesian languages--Research, Historical linguistics--Research, Language and languages--Word frequency, Linguistic paleontology--Research
...together with the word for bandicoot. Bandicoot. The bandicoot, or marsupial rat, is found only east of the Wallace Line (unlike...Examples include Leti-Moa mada, made, Damar madar bandicoot in CMP languages of the Lesser Sunda islands, Yamdena...
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Preliminary Zooarchaeological Interpretations from Kutikina Cave, South-West Tasmania
Journal article by Jillian M. Garvey; Australian Aboriginal Studies, Vol. 2006, 2006
Subjects: Animal remains (Archaeology)--Research, Jones, Rhys--Research, Kiernan, Kevin--Research, Tasmania--Discovery and exploration
...not identified were the water rat (Hydromys chrysogaster), Southern Brown Bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus), Eastern...br/ Broad Toothed Rat...3 <br/ Swamp Rat, Rattus lutreolus...
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Olfaction
Journal article by Richard L. Doty; Annual Review of Psychology, 2001
Subjects: Aging--Physiological aspects, Molecular biology--Research, Pheromones--Research, Psychophysics--Research, Smell--Research
...lagomorphs, and marsupials (e.g. the bandicoot, house mouse, deer mouse, Norway rat, hamster, rabbit, and guinea...studies have shown that, in the rat and mouse, neurons expressing...number of receptor neurons in the rat olfactory epithelium, demonstrating...
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The Howl and the Pussy: Feral Cats and Wild Dogs in the Australian Imagination
Journal article by Nicholas Smith; The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 10, 1999
Subjects: Australia, Cats, Dogs, Nationalism, Symbolism
...with a cat between Melbourne and Sydney on May 9 1839, describes the feline hunter catching a (now extinct) Rabbit-eared Tree Rat (anon. 1993: 1). Reports such as this might send shivers down a conservationists spine, but we should bear in mind that abhorrence...
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War and the Environment: War Can Wreck Landscapes and Ecosystems as Well as People
Magazine article by Sarah Deweerdt; World Watch, Vol. 21, January 2008
Subjects: Ecosystems--Destruction, Environmental associations--Powers and duties, War--Environmental aspects, War--Influence, War--Social aspects, Wars--Environmental aspects, Wars--Influence, Wars--Social aspects
...Persian Gulf, and dust storms plagued the land. Several species endemic to the marshes--the smooth-coated otter, the bandicoot rat, the long-fingered bat, and a species of barbel fish--are thought to have been driven extinct. Dozens more bird species...
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Exotic Down Under
Magazine article by Hillary Young; E, Vol. 11, November 2000
Subjects: Animals--Environmental aspects, Australia--Environmental aspects
...small marsupials such as the hare wallabie, the bilbie and the bandicoot. Their populations crashed. Troubles continued from another...ground and too small to defend themselves, like wallabies and rat-kangaroos. According to the University of Queenslands Hamish...


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encyclopedia articles on: Bandicoot Rat  - 4 results

 
 
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Bandicoot Rat
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BANDICOOT RAT giant rat of southern Asia, unrelated to true bandicoots. It is an agricultural pest in the grain crops and...known for the piglike grunts it emits when attacked. Bandicoot rats are classified in the phylum Chordata , subphylum...
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Bandicoot
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...19 species in eight genera. Bandicoots have long, pointed, shrewlike...range in size from that of a rat to that of a rabbit. Their...comb for grooming the fur. Bandicoots are able to hop about like...commonly creep on all fours. Bandicoots are classified in the phylum...
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Rat
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...wild-living species. In addition, many other members of several different rodent families are called rats, e.g., the bandicoot rat , the wood rat, or pack rat , the rice rat, the muskrat , and the kangaroo rat. House rats are classified in...
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Rodent
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...thus be placed in orders of their own. See also mountain beaver , ground squirrel , flying squirrel , pack rat , bandicoot rat , and jumping mouse . Bibliography See Sir J. R. Ellerman, The Families and Genera of Living Rodents...


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