Panay cloudrunner

The Panay cloudrunner, Crateromys heaneyi, is the second-largest cloud rat, a squirrel-like rodent found on the island of Panay in the Philippines. It was discovered by western science in 1987 and described as a new species in 1996 by Robert Kennedy and Pedro Gonzales; the late discovery came because Panay had lost so much forest that biologists largely ignored it. It is a little over 600 millimetres long with grizzled greyish-brown fur and a long bushy tail that makes up more than half of that length, and it weighs around one kilogram. It is nocturnal and arboreal, nesting by day in a hollow tree and eating bananas, guavas, corn, papayas and leaves. Deforestation is its major threat.