The red rock rat, Aethomys chrysophilus, also called the red veld rat, is a rat-sized murine rodent of the family Muridae native to southern Africa. Its range runs from southern Kenya through eastern Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe to north-eastern South Africa, and west through most of Zambia and Botswana to northern Namibia and south-western Angola. Adults have a head-body length of 12 to 17 cm, a tail of 13 to 20 cm and a weight of 40 to 114 g, with reddish-brown fur mixed with dark hairs and white or very pale grey underparts. It is nocturnal and omnivorous, feeding mainly on seeds, fruit, green leaves and starchy roots, and it lives in savannah or woodland with dense vegetation or rocky cover below 1,000 m. It looks essentially identical to the Tete veld rat, from which it can be reliably told only by genetic analysis or the shape of its spermatozoa, and fossils indistinguishable from the modern species date back 3.7 million years.
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Further west, they are found through most of Zambia and Botswana to northern Namibia and south-western Angola
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Further west, they are found through most of Zambia and Botswana to northern Namibia and south-western Angola
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red rock rats are currently believed to live in east Africa from southern Kenya, through eastern Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe to the north-eastern border regions of South Africa
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red rock rats are currently believed to live in east Africa from southern Kenya, through eastern Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe to the north-eastern border regions of South Africa
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red rock rats are currently believed to live in east Africa from southern Kenya, through eastern Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe to the north-eastern border regions of South Africa
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Source Red rock rat (Wikipedia)Distribution and habitat, western rangeQuote, Distribution and habitat, western range
Further west, they are found through most of Zambia and Botswana to northern Namibia and south-western Angola
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Source Red rock rat (Wikipedia)Distribution and habitat, where it livesQuote, Distribution and habitat, where it lives
red rock rats are currently believed to live in east Africa from southern Kenya, through eastern Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe to the north-eastern border regions of South Africa
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Red rock rat (Wikipedia)Distribution and habitat, where it livesQuote, Distribution and habitat, where it lives
red rock rats are currently believed to live in east Africa from southern Kenya, through eastern Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe to the north-eastern border regions of South Africa
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Red rock rat (Wikipedia)Distribution and habitat, western rangeQuote, Distribution and habitat, western range
Further west, they are found through most of Zambia and Botswana to northern Namibia and south-western Angola
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Red rock rat (Wikipedia)Distribution and habitat, where it livesQuote, Distribution and habitat, where it lives
red rock rats are currently believed to live in east Africa from southern Kenya, through eastern Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe to the north-eastern border regions of South Africa
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red rock rats inhabit savannah or woodland areas with dense vegetation or rocky cover
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Red rock rats are nocturnal and omnivorous, but feed mainly on plant matter
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Red rock rats are widely distributed across southern Africa
Distribution and habitat, where it lives
red rock rats are currently believed to live in east Africa from southern Kenya, through eastern Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe to the north-eastern border regions of South Africa
Distribution and habitat, western range
Further west, they are found through most of Zambia and Botswana to northern Namibia and south-western Angola
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is a species of rodent in the family Muridae
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is a species of rodent in the family Muridae
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