Australian rats scurry to desert en masse after rains
A mass migration of rats is under way into the inland deserts of Australia after a run of high rainfall seasons, scientists say.
The native long-haired rat, or Rattus villosissimus, normally lives in the Barkly Tableland of the Northern Territory and in western Queensland.
abc- Rats reign after rains
But now it has been spotted in Alice Springs for the first time in 25 years.
“Some of them get up to about 30cm [12in] long – fair lump of a rat,” livestock manager Chris Giles said.
“They will run around and hide under a little bit of shrub there, and you can get pretty close to them,” Mr Giles, a stockman on the Northern Territory’s Lake Nash Station, told Australia’s ABC News.
“I nearly caught one the other day.”
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