[Taxacom] rodent reappears

[John Grehan]

For those interested in obscure biodiversitia the following might be of
interest, for cuteness value if nothing else.

 

John Grehan

 

A long-lost rodent reappears

Lizzie Noble/ ProAves www.proaves.org

For the first time in more than a century, a red-crested tree rat shows
its face. The guinea-pig-sized rodent was spotted in the El Dorado
Nature Reserve in Colombia - 113 years after two animals were found and
studied to provide all that is currently known about the species,
according to Wired
<http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/05/red-crested-tree-rat/> . "He
just shuffled up the handrail near where we were sitting and seemed
totally unperturbed by all the excitement he was causing," Lizzie Noble,
a volunteer from Britain, had been at the reserve for just a month when
she witnessed the creature, said in a ProAves press release
<http://www.proaves.org/article.php?id_article=1000> . "We are
absolutely delighted to have rediscovered such a wonderful creature."

 

 

Dr. John R. Grehan
Director of Science and Research
Buffalo Museum of Science
1020 Humboldt Parkway
Buffalo, NY 14211-1193

email: jgrehan at sciencebuff.org
Phone: (716) 896-5200 ext 372
Fax: (716) 897-6723

Panbiogeography
http://www.sciencebuff.org/biogeography_and_evolutionary_biology.php

Ghost moth research
http://www.sciencebuff.org/systematics_and_evolution_of_hepialdiae.php

Human evolution and the great apes
http://www.sciencebuff.org/human_origin_and_the_great_apes.php