My Opa caught a black rat with the trap he uses for Indian Mynas 😂
cute!
I gave it some grape stalks lol. Of course it is a pest so he’s gonna gas it with the car exhaust tomorrow. Sad but necessary. I told him to wear gloves and whatnot, zoonotic diseases and all that. I hate how cute it is though. I quadruple checked it wasn’t a bush rat - the tail length gives it away.
My Opa caught a black rat with the trap he uses for Indian Mynas 😂
cute!
I gave it some grape stalks lol. Of course it is a pest so he’s gonna gas it with the car exhaust tomorrow. Sad but necessary. I told him to wear gloves and whatnot, zoonotic diseases and all that. I hate how cute it is though. I quadruple checked it wasn’t a bush rat - the tail length gives it away.
that tail 😬
Yup! Long black rat tail - their tails are longer than the length of their body.
Bush rats have rather short tails, you can see in these pics how short it is compared to the body of the bush rat
native Bush Rats
Different species too, but same genus: Rattus fuscipes. Native to Australia.
The black rat, Rattus rattus is, obviously, introduced/a pest species. Same with the Norway rat Rattus norvegicus
aw, the aussie rat is such a cutie