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Rattus rattus

Black Rat at QPRC LGA

Rattus rattus at QPRC LGA - suppressed
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Identification history

Rattus rattus 17 Feb 2025 DonFletcher
Rattus or Mastacomys sp. (genus) 27 May 2024 DonFletcher
Rattus rattus 27 May 2024 CarbonAI
Unverified 27 May 2024 Paul4K

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Reviewing game camera images, not sure what this is.

2 comments

DonFletcher wrote:
   27 May 2024
Rat shaped. If it is rat-sized, not mouse-sized, then it will be either the native Bush Rat, Rattus fuscipes, or more likely the introduced Black/Roof Rat, Rattus rattus. The only difference between these species, that could be picked up in an image like this, is the ratio of tail length to head-body length. Rr has a tail longer than HB. But sometimes the thin end of a tail is not picked up in low res trail cam image
Paul4K wrote:
   27 May 2024
Thanks, thought it was a rat Rr, initially but on revisiting images was unsure. Definitely rat sized.

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  • Rattus rattus Scientific name
  • Black Rat Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Exotic
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 1019.83m Recorded at altitude
  • 116 images trained Machine learning
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