African crested rat
Gogaa isaa keessa summiiNyaata: BiqiltuuSummaa'aa, summii qabeessa (ciniinee ykn iddee) mitiThe 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

Akkaataa itti beekamu
- 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
Humna summii
Gogaan isaa summaa'aa dha. Tuquun, arrabaan saamuun ykn nyaachuun balaa qaba.
Summiin isaa (summaa'aa, tuquun ykn nyaachuun) maal godha?
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
Namootaaf hammam balaa qaba?
Balaa namootaaf: CimaaYoo namni tokko tuqe ykn nyaate, doktora bira dhaqi. Du'i baay'ee hin mudatu.Its poison is a risk to predators that try to bite it. The rat itself is not harmed by the toxins it stores.1
Yeroo sodaatu maal godha?
When threatened or excited, the mane stands up and the glandular strip parts, exposing the skin that carries the poison.1
Yoo namni tokko tuqe ykn nyaate
- Yoo namni tokko nyaate ykn erga nyaatee booda mallattoon itti mul'ate: battaluma lakkoofsa balaa tasaa ykn giddugala summii bilbili.
Yeroo hunda dursa lakkoofsa balaa tasaa kee bilbili (112, 000, 911). Kun qajeelfama gargaarsa jalqabaa waliigalaa ti, gorsa yaalaa miti. Bu'uura gargaarsa jalqabaa
Nageenyaan turi
- Bineensa bosonaa gonkumaa hin tuqin, hin qabin, hin tuttuqin, xiqqaa ta'us, rafe ykn du'e fakkaatus.
- Iddoo itti kenni. Yoo tokko wajjin wal argite, tasgabbaa'i, suuta duubatti deebi'iitii karaa isaa akka deemu dhiisi.
- Yoo tuqxe ykn nyaatte: ija ykn afaan kee hin sukkuumin, harka kee dhiqi, gargaarsa yaalaas argadhu.
Si miidhuuf si hin barbaadu. Summiin isaa akka homtuu isa hin nyaanneef qofa jira. Waa'ee nageenyaa dabalataan
Addunyaa keessaa eessatti?
Hammam guddaa dha?
Dheerinni isaa hammam?
Hammam ulfaata?
akka bilookii taphaa 10 tarree tokkoon dheerata
meetira 100 sekoondii 72 keessatti fiiguu danda'a (namni hundaa caalaa ariifatu 9,6 barbaada)African crested rat SI wajjin yoo wal bira qabamu hammam guddaa dha?
Herrega qofa barsiisaa kee keessatti. Homtuu hin olkaa'amu, eessayyuu hin ergamu.
Hammam ariifata?
Dhugaawwan
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
Soba diigaa
Soba: The maned rat was believed to be solitary.
Dhugaa: 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
Ogeeyyii summiitiif
- Maqaa saayinsii
- Lophiomys imhausi
- Garee
- Bineensota summaa'oo biroo
- Maatii
- Muridae2
- Tartiiba
- Rodentia
- Ardiiwwan
- Afrikaa
- Ilmoolee
- 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
- Bosona keessatti haala akkamii keessa jira
- Least Concern1
- Balaa namootaaf
- 3 / 5: Cimaa3
Dhugaawwan eessaa dhufu
- Maned rat (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Lophiomys imhausi (iNaturalist): maqaa fi ramaddii.
- Venom Wiki: sadarkaan balaa, guddinni idilee fi tilmaamni ariitii kan keenya. Akkamitti akka hojjennu ilaali: Balaa akkamitti madaalla.
Dhugaan fuula kana irra jiru hundi lakkoofsa madda isaatti si qajeelchu qaba. Yoo waan tokko dogoggorre, dhiifama, nuti jaallattoota bineensotaa ti malee joornaalii saayinsii miti. [email protected] irratti nutti himi, ni sirreessina.



