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What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by BananaPeel(op): 12:46pm On Nov 28, 2020
What is the name of this rodent I saw for the first time in my life?
It looks like a rat but has a furly tail like squirrel but neither the two of them.

Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by Jashub: 12:46pm On Nov 28, 2020
It looks like a squirrel
Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by BananaPeel(op): 12:48pm On Nov 28, 2020
Jashub:
It looks like a squirrel
yea but it's not squirrel. I know squirrel very well.
Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by Karlifate: 12:55pm On Nov 28, 2020
It looks like a rat, with a squirrel's tail.

Then, it's a fox squirrel.
Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by thorpido(m): 12:56pm On Nov 28, 2020
It is a woodrat with a bushy tail or called bushy-tailed woodrat.
Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by Amotolongbo(f): 12:57pm On Nov 28, 2020
BananaPeel:
What is the name of this rodent I saw for the first time in my life?
It looks like a rat but has a furly tail like squirrel but neither the two of them.
Hope you aren’t asking us to know if it is edible?
Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by BananaPeel(op): 12:58pm On Nov 28, 2020
Amotolongbo:
Hope you aren’t asking us to know if it is edible?
Not at all.
Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by thesicilian: 1:08pm On Nov 28, 2020
Amotolongbo:
Hope you aren’t asking us to know if it is edible?
That's if he hasn't already eaten it.
Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by DropsMic(m): 1:09pm On Nov 28, 2020
thesicilian:
That's if he hasn't already eaten it.
Lol
Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by SKhanmi: 1:24pm On Nov 28, 2020
Looks like a wood rat
Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by rowland545(m): 1:40pm On Nov 28, 2020
Its an edible rat...u can go ahead and eat it...

No one will judge u
Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by Abcruz(m): 2:18pm On Nov 28, 2020
I hope it's remains are not in the cooking pot. grin

BTW it's a bush-tailed woodrat. wink
Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by ExAngel007(f): 2:37pm On Nov 28, 2020
and u killed it.

Well that's the bushy-tailed woodrat, or packrat
(Neotoma cinerea) is a species of rodent in
the family Cricetidae

Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by RubiesBanking: 3:02pm On Nov 28, 2020
Woodland dormouse
Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by greymiles: 3:55pm On Nov 28, 2020
rodentua rabbidicus
found only in southern Nigeria.
they use their tail to sweep the forest every morning
and the dig gold from the soil
a full grown rodentua has about 20kg of gold inside it's belly
Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by olasehinde35130: 4:32pm On Nov 28, 2020
What is the name of this rodent I saw for the first time in my life?It looks like a rat but has a furly tail like squirrel but neither the two of them.
Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by Lorayne(m): 4:56pm On Nov 28, 2020
ExAngel007:
and u killed it.

Well that's the bushy-tailed woodrat, or packrat
(Neotoma cinerea) is a species of rodent in
the family Cricetidae
Awww... So cute
Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by Kelly2713(m): 5:19pm On Nov 28, 2020
that is adua for u. it is edible
Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by TANID(m): 6:18pm On Nov 28, 2020
Karlifate:
It looks like a rat, with a squirrel's tail.

Then, it's a fox squirrel.
hahahaha! grin
Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by Uyi168: 6:18pm On Nov 28, 2020
ExAngel007:
and u killed it.

Well that's the bushy-tailed woodrat, or packrat
(Neotoma cinerea) is a species of rodent in
the family Cricetidae
correct.
Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by LordTosinJ(m): 6:32pm On Nov 28, 2020
I know pepper soup when I see it. and this is one of them. grin
Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by SKhanmi: 6:43pm On Nov 28, 2020
greymiles:
rodentua rabbidicus
found only in southern Nigeria.
they use their tail to sweep the forest every morning
and the dig gold from the soil
a full grown rodentua has about 20kg of gold inside it's belly
You my dear sir, is high
Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by Nobody: 6:59pm On Nov 28, 2020
ExAngel007:
and u killed it.
I have performed the autopsy and carried out a coroner's inquest... the OP wasn't responsible for the death of the rodent.

The death of the beast was "an act of God".
Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by Nobody: 7:01pm On Nov 28, 2020
Lorayne:
Awww... So cute
huh huh huh

Why does this comment make me suspect this account so muchhuh
Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by Lorayne(m): 7:03pm On Nov 28, 2020
mansakhalifa:
huh huh huh

Why does this comment make me suspect this account so muchhuh
Perhaps, because you stupid?
Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by Asquare84(m): 7:06pm On Nov 28, 2020
BananaPeel:
What is the name of this rodent I saw for the first time in my life?
It looks like a rat but has a furly tail like squirrel but neither the two of them.
Hope it end well as pepper soup
Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by Nobody: 7:11pm On Nov 28, 2020
Lorayne:
Perhaps, because you stupid?
I was right after all...

Your reply just gave you away as an XX hiding behind a "m". smiley

There are so many of you on this forum and the mods have hired me to fish everyone of you out.
Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by Lorayne(m): 7:14pm On Nov 28, 2020
mansakhalifa:
I was right after all...

Your reply just gave you away as an XX hiding behind a "m". smiley

There are so many of you on this forum and the mods have hired me to fish everyone of you out.
My assumptions were right after all.... You re really stupid.
Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by Nobody: 7:16pm On Nov 28, 2020
Lorayne:
My assumptions were right after all.... You re really stupid.
grin

Sorry for the inconveniences, madam.

But I had to do the job I was hired for you see?

Meanwhile, pipe down on the invectives.
Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by Nobody: 8:18pm On Nov 28, 2020
This one is the real lassa carrier. Look at it's tail shocked shocked shocked. Devil rat.
Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by muller101(m): 9:54pm On Nov 28, 2020
Op pls confirm the number of boobs under it's belly
Re: What Is The Name Of This Rare Rodent by Teena18(f): 10:48pm On Nov 28, 2020
If you were abroad, you might have been arrested for killing an endangered species grin but thankfully this is Nigeria.
Please don't let my business die like this rat species embarassed , patronize me.
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