Rattus argentiventer

This Rat of the rice plantations is present everywhere in Asia south is.

Description of the species

Morphology

Rattus argentiventer is a rat of intermediate size to brown and black gray peeling. Its belly is grisâtre with the side whiter. The tail is maroon. It measures 30,4 to 40 cm length, plus a tail from 14 to 20 cm and a cranium from 3,7 to 4,1 cm

Reproduction

This rat of the rice plantations can reproduce all the year

Œustrus: 4 to 5 days
Gestation: 3 weeks
Carried: 3 to 8 small
1 to 12 ranges per annum

The ratte makes a nest 3 to 5 days before the put low in which the small ones are deposited. It are born naked and blind. The ratte has 12 udders to nourish them. The eyes open after 15 days and the small ones leave the nest, after the Sevrage, at the end of 3 weeks. Sexual maturity is reached at the end of 3 months. The father occupies only very little the small ones, they are educated by the mother and with their brothers and sisters.

Habitat

This rat lives mainly in the zones cultivated like the rice plantations and the meadows. It hides in Terrier S, under the rocks or of the stocks. It builds Nid S by amoncelant materials in its burrow

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