Malayan field rat

Rattus tiomanicus is a rat and belongs to the subfamily of Altweltmäuse ( Murinae ).

She lives on the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Palawan, Sumatra, Java, and the neighboring small islands. It is still unclear whether the island population of this widespread type subspecies or separate species. Forms such as Rattus mindorensis ( Mindoro ), Rattus simalurensis ( Simalur Islands) and Rattus Burrus ( Nicobar Islands ) belong to this Article you might also historically referred to as " Rattus jalorensis " or with the house rat (Rattus rattus ) konfusiert. It also occurs on small islands as Enggano ( in Sumatra) and Arena, Bancalan, Busuanga, Calauit and Palawan in southwestern Philippines.

This species is 14 to 19 inches ( snout-vent length ) long. The tail is slightly longer at 12 to 20 centimeters in the rule. Adult animals weighing 80 to 130 grams. The fur is brown on the top, the belly is light gray to white. She does not have a thick coat. The tail is colored light on top and dark on the bottom, the ears are large and sparsely hairy. The feet are not hairy and wide on the top. R. tiomanicus is mainly nocturnal.

R. tiomanicus is a waldbewohnende rat, which occurs predominantly in habitats such as secondary forests, coastal forests, mangroves, grasslands and plantations. Localities are rare and only inhabited when there occur no house rats. She puts on no underground burrows, nests are more likely to find in the crowns of palm trees and in hollow or lying on the ground strains. The diet consists mainly of fruits, oil palm plantations, by R. tiomanicus up to 5 % of the harvest will be destroyed. This type creates food reserves in clusters fronds cut off as well as in old trunks. Also applied by other rats, underground burrows are rarely used to. In plantations individual animals inhabit very small areas, which may include only a few neighboring palm trees.

It can come about throughout the year to reproduction, which may include a litter of two to seven pups.