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

No anndirte ngal
- 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
Doole tooke ɓanndu
Nguru mum ina jogii tooke. Ina bonna so meemaama, lakkaama walla ñaamaama.
Hol ko tooke ɓanndu mum waɗata?
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
Hol no bone mum heewiri e yimɓe?
Bone e yimɓe: Ina tiiɗiSo neɗɗo meemii ngal walla ñaamii ngal, yahu e doktoor. Maayde ina famɗi sanne.Its poison is a risk to predators that try to bite it. The rat itself is not harmed by the toxins it stores.1
Hol ko ngal waɗata so ina hula?
When threatened or excited, the mane stands up and the glandular strip parts, exposing the skin that carries the poison.1
So neɗɗo meemii ngal walla ñaamii ngal
- So neɗɗo ñaamii ɗum walla ina jogii maandeeji caggal ñaamde ɗum: noddu nimero urgence walla centre antipoison ɗoo e sahaa oo.
Adii fof noddu nimero urgence (112, 000, 911). Ɗum ko anndinal ballal adiingal, wonaa saaraangal doktoor. Ko adii e ballal adiingal
Reen hoore maa
- Wota a meem, wota a nanngu, wota a ñiŋŋu kullal ladde haa abada, hay so ngal ina famɗi, hay so ina nanndi e ɗaaniingal walla maayngal.
- Accu ngal nokku. So a fotti e ngal, deƴƴu, ruttu ɓaawo seeɗa seeɗa, accu ngal yaha laawol mum.
- So a meemii ngal walla a ñaamii ngal: wota a moomtu gite maa walla hunduko maa, loot juuɗe maa, heɓ ballal cafrol.
Ngal faalaaka gaañde ma. Tooke mum woni tan ngam wota huunde ñaam ngal. Ɓeydu anndude no reentortoo
Hol to e aduna?
Hol no mawniri?
Hol no juutiri?
Hol no teddiri?
juutde no kaaɗe mahirɗe 10 ɗaɓɓondiraaɗe
ina waawi taƴde 100 meeteer e segonde 72 (neɗɗo ɓurɗo yaawde ina sokli 9,6)Hol no African crested rat mawniri, so fooɗondiraama e AN?
Limgal tan e navigatoor maa. Alaa ko danndetee walla ko neldetee.
Hol no yaawiri?
Humpito
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
Feññinoowo fenaande
Fenaande: The maned rat was believed to be solitary.
Goonga: 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
Ngam ganduɓe tooke
- Innde ganndal
- Lophiomys imhausi
- Fedde
- Kulle goɗɗe jogiiɗe tooke ɓanndu
- Ɓesngu
- Muridae2
- Ordre
- Rodentia
- Leyɗe mawɗe
- Afrik
- Ɓiɓɓe tokooso
- 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
- Hol no ngal woniri e ladde
- Least Concern1
- Bone e yimɓe
- 3 / 5: Ina tiiɗi3
Ɗo humpito iwri
- Maned rat (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Lophiomys imhausi (iNaturalist): inɗe e ceergal.
- Venom Wiki: tolno bone, mawnude heewnde e miijo yaawde ko amen. Yiy no men keɓirta ɗum: No men tolnirta bone.
Kala humpito e ngoo hello ina jogii limoore hollirnde iwdi mum. So men juumii, yaafo, men ko yiɗɓe kulle, wonaa jaaynde ganndal. Wiy men e [email protected], men feewnita.
Tooke e nguru mum


