Gray-headed thicket rat

The gray-headed thicket rat is a rodent in the family Muridae whose scientific name is Grammomys caniceps. It belongs to Grammomys, the genus of thicket rats, and it was described in 1984 by Rainer Hutterer and Fritz Dieterlen. The species is found in Kenya and Somalia, and its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists it as Data Deficient, meaning there is too little information to judge how secure it is. The encyclopedia account this entry draws on is brief, and it does not describe the animal's size, diet, breeding or behavior, so those details are left open here rather than guessed.