Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat

The Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat (Crateromys australis), also called the Dinagat crateromys or Dinagat cloud rat, is a species of cloud rat in the family Muridae and one of eight cloud rats found only in the Philippines, where it is endemic to Dinagat Island and known locally as hawili. It is nocturnal and arboreal and lives in tropical lowland forest. A single specimen, now the holotype, was collected by Dioscoro Rabor in 1975 and deposited in the American Museum of Natural History; the full description was reported in 1985, and no further specimen was known until Czech zoologists recorded a living animal on film in January 2012. It is medium sized for its genus, with a head and body length of 26.5 centimetres and a longer tail of 28 centimetres, tawny and orange fur without the colour patterns of its relatives, and a tail striped in three colours. Heavy logging and chromite mining on Dinagat drive the loss of its forest habitat.