African crested rat
The African crested rat is a large, nocturnal rodent with long hair and a bushy tail. It looks a little like a porcupine. It lives in East Africa, where it is the world's only known poisonous rodent, coating itself in plant toxins to keep predators away.1

Nola ezagutu
- Large, nocturnal rodent with long, silver and black-tipped guard hairs over a woolly grey and white undercoat1
- A mane of longer black-and-white banded hairs runs from the top of the head to just beyond the base of the tail1
- A broad, white-bordered strip of glandular skin sits beside the mane, and it becomes visible when the animal is threatened1
- Bushy tail and short black fur on the face and limbs1
- Superficially resembles a porcupine1
Pozoi-indarra
Bere azala toxikoa da. Arriskutsua da ukitzea, miazkatzea edo jatea.
Zer egiten du bere toxinak?
This animal is poisonous rather than venomous, so it does not bite or sting to inject poison. It smears poison from the bark of the poison arrow tree onto the hairs of its glandular skin patch. A predator that bites it can be sickened or even killed by this poison.1
Zein arriskutsua da pertsonentzat?
Arriskua pertsonentzat: LarriaNorbaitek ukitzen edo jaten badu, joan medikuarengana. Heriotzak oso arraroak dira.Its poison is a risk to predators that try to bite it. The rat itself is not harmed by the toxins it stores.1
Zer egiten du beldurtzen denean?
When threatened or excited, the mane stands up and the glandular strip parts, exposing the skin that carries the poison.1
Norbaitek ukitu edo jan badu
- Norbaitek jan badu edo jan ondoren sintomak baditu: deitu berehala zure larrialdi-zenbakira edo intoxikazio-zentrora.
Deitu beti lehenik zure larrialdi-zenbakira (112, 000, 911). Lehen sorospenei buruzko orientabide orokorra da hau, ez mediku-aholkua. Lehen sorospenen oinarriak
Egon seguru
- Ez ukitu, ez harrapatu eta ez zirikatu inoiz animalia basati bat, txikia izan arren, eta lo edo hilda dagoela badirudi ere.
- Utzi tartea. Bat aurkitzen baduzu, egon lasai, egin atzera poliki eta utzi bere bidetik joaten.
- Ukitu edo jan baduzu: ez igurtzi begiak edo ahoa, garbitu eskuak eta lortu mediku-laguntza.
Ez dabil zure atzetik. Pozoia ezerk jan ez dezan baino ez du. Seguru egoteari buruz gehiago
Munduko zein tokitan?
Zein handia da?
Zein luzea da?
Zein astuna da?
10 eraikuntza-bloke ilaran jarrita bezain luzea
100 metro 72 segundotan egin litzake (gizakirik azkarrenak 9,6 behar ditu)Zein handia da African crested rat ZUREKIN alderatuta?
Matematika hutsa zure nabigatzailean. Ez da ezer gordetzen, ezta inora bidaltzen ere.
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Datuak
It is the world's only known poisonous rodent.1
It is the only rodent known to use and store toxins from a different species in nature to protect itself, and it suffers no known harm from them.1
Its stomach has five anatomically distinct sections, a feature found in very few rodents.1
The skull is covered with small bony projections that give it a pebbled look.1
Its large size may allow microbes in its foregut to break down cellulose from plants by fermentation.1
Mito-hauslea
Mitoa: The maned rat was believed to be solitary.
Egia: It is now known to be somewhat sociable. Several animals are found in the same territory, and they purr and groom one another, so they may form family groups of a male, a female and their young.1
Pozoi-adituentzat
- Izen zientifikoa
- Lophiomys imhausi
- Taldea
- Beste animalia toxiko batzuk
- Familia
- Muridae2
- Ordena
- Rodentia
- Kontinenteak
- Afrika
- Kumeak
- Litters have 1 to 3 young. The young are slightly haired at birth, their eyes open by day 13, and they are weaned by day 40.1
- Nola dagoen naturan
- Least Concern1
- Arriskua pertsonentzat
- 3 / 5: Larria3
Datuak nondik datozen
- Maned rat (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Lophiomys imhausi (iNaturalist): izenak eta sailkapena.
- Venom Wiki: arrisku-maila, ohiko tamaina eta abiadura-kalkulua geureak dira. Ikusi nola kalkulatzen ditugun: Nola baloratzen dugun arriskua.
Orrialde honetako datu bakoitzak zenbaki bat du, bere iturrira eramaten zaituena. Zerbait gaizki badugu, barkatu, animalien zaleak gara, ez zientzia-aldizkari bat. Esaiguzu [email protected] helbidean eta konponduko dugu.
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