African crested rat
Daŋar ci deramDafay lekk: GàncaxAm daŋar ci yaram, du màtt walla jamThe 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

Ni ngay ko xàmmee
- 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
Kàttanu daŋar
Deram am na daŋar. Musiba la ci laal, mar walla lekk.
Lan la daŋar bi ci yaramam di def?
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
Ni mu lore nit ñi?
Musiba ci nit: Lu bonSu kenn laalee ko walla mu lekk ko, demal gis doktoor. Ñi ciy dee dañoo néew lool.Its poison is a risk to predators that try to bite it. The rat itself is not harmed by the toxins it stores.1
Lan lay def bu tiitee?
When threatened or excited, the mane stands up and the glandular strip parts, exposing the skin that carries the poison.1
Su kenn laalee ko walla mu lekk ko
- Su kenn lekkee ko walla mu am ay màndarga ginnaaw bi mu ko lekkee: woo sa nimerob urgence walla centre antipoison ci saa si.
Saa su nekk, woo jëkk sa nimerob urgence (112, 000, 911). Lii ay ndigal yu yaatu ci ndimbal yu jëkk la, du ndigalu doktoor. Li war a xam ci ndimbal yu jëkk
Sàmmal sa bopp
- Bul laal mukk, bul jàpp, bul sonal ab rab bu àll, doonte bu ndaw la, te doonte dafa mel ni dafa nelaw walla dafa dee.
- May ko bérab. Su nga ko gisee, dalal, dellu ginnaaw ndànk-ndànk te bàyyi ko mu dem yoonam.
- Su nga ko laalee walla nga lekk ko: bul moos say bët walla sa gémmiñ, raxas say loxo te wutal ndimbal doktoor.
Du la wut. Daŋaram nekk na rekk ngir kenn bañ ko lekk. Yeneen ci ni ngay sàmme sa bopp
Ni mu réye?
Ni mu guddoo?
Ni mu diise?
guddu na ni 10 bloku tabax yu ñu toftale
mën na daw 100 meetar ci 72 segond (nit ki gën a gaaw soxla na 9,6)African crested rat ni mu réye ci wetu YOW?
Ay waññ rekk ci sa navigateur. Dara du denc te dara du yónnee fenn.
Ni mu gaawe?
Xibaar
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
Tasukatu léeb
Xalaat bu juum: The maned rat was believed to be solitary.
Dëgg: 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
Ngir boroom xam-xam ci daŋar
- Turu xam-xam
- Lophiomys imhausi
- Mbooloo
- Yeneen rab yu am daŋar ci seen yaram
- Njaboot
- Muridae2
- Toftal
- Rodentia
- Kontinaa yi
- Afrig
- Liir yi
- 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
- Ni mu nekke ci àll bi
- Least Concern1
- Musiba ci nit
- 3 / 5: Lu bon3
Fa xibaar yi jóge
- Maned rat (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Lophiomys imhausi (iNaturalist): tur ak ni ñu leen séddale.
- Venom Wiki: tolluwaayu musiba bi, réyaay bu yem bi ak xalaatu gaawaay bi, nun ñoo leen defar. Seetal ni nu leen waññe: Ni nuy natte musiba.
Xibaar bu nekk ci xët wii am na ab nimero buy won fa mu jóge. Su nu juumee, baal nu, nun ay nit ñu bëgg rab lanu, du ab jurnaalu xam-xam. Wax nu ko ci [email protected] te dinanu ko jubbanti.



