Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat

The southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat, also called the southern Luzon giant cloud rat and known in Filipino as bugkon (Phloeomys cumingi), is a large rodent of the family Muridae found only in southern Luzon in the Philippines. Its coat is dark brown, sometimes with some reddish tones, and it lacks the light-coloured sections seen in its close relative, the northern Luzon giant cloud rat. Adults measure about 67 to 75 centimetres in total length and weigh roughly 1.45 to 2.1 kilograms. It is a slow-moving animal that is active only at night, equally at home high in the branches of a tree and on the forest floor, and it spends the day in hollow trees or logs. It usually lives singly or in pairs, either an adult male and female or a female with her young, although larger groups have also been seen. Its diet consists primarily of tender young leaves, and fruit is also reportedly eaten. A female typically gives birth to a single pup each year, most often in the late rainy season, in the hollow of a standing or fallen tree or in a hole in the ground, and the mother carries the young firmly attached to a nipple.