Thomas's rope squirrel

Thomas's rope squirrel, also called the redless tree squirrel (Funisciurus anerythrus), is a medium-sized rodent in the squirrel family Sciuridae that lives in tropical West and Central Africa. It grows to a head-and-body length of about 180 mm with a bushy tail of about 160 mm. Its back is a plain, grizzled brown with a single buff stripe bordered with dark brown below, running from the shoulder to the hindquarters, while the underparts are whitish, dull grey or orange. It lives mainly in moist lowland forest, often in wet places such as raffia palm and swamp forests, riverbanks and river islands, and it forages on the ground and in trees for fruits and seeds, also eating ants, termites and small amounts of leaves and fungi. Breeding can happen at any time of year, with litters of one or two young. The IUCN rates it as least concern. Its range is split into two areas, so two separate species may be involved.