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Neotoma cinerea
A high desert rat. About 6 inches long
rocky, sagebrush desert
Spotted on Jan 20, 2011
Submitted on Jan 20, 2012
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I suspect this is a bushy-tailed woodrat (Neotoma cinerea). See http://imnh.isu.edu/digitalatlas/bio/mam... for more information. I've seen these rats on only one other occasion and that was in Montana, but this animal resembles the one that I saw. Also known as packrats.