African crested rat
Ushevu esikhumbeni sasoSidla: IzitshaloSinoshevu, asinabo ubuthi bokuluma noma bokuhlabaThe 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

Indlela yokusibona
- 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
Amandla oshevu
Isikhumba saso sinoshevu. Kuyingozi ukusithinta, ukusikhotha noma ukusidla.
Ushevu waso wenzani?
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
Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?
Ingozi ebantwini: Kubi kakhuluUma umuntu esithinta noma esidla, yana kudokotela. Ukufa kuyivelakancane kakhulu.Its poison is a risk to predators that try to bite it. The rat itself is not harmed by the toxins it stores.1
Senzani uma sesabile?
When threatened or excited, the mane stands up and the glandular strip parts, exposing the skin that carries the poison.1
Uma umuntu esithintile noma esidlile
- Uma umuntu esidlile noma enezimpawu ngemva kokusidla: shayela inombolo yezimo eziphuthumayo noma isikhungo soshevu (poison centre) ngokushesha.
Njalo shayela kuqala inombolo yezimo eziphuthumayo (112, 000, 911). Lokhu kuyiseluleko sosizo lokuqala esijwayelekile, akusona iseluleko sezokwelapha. Izisekelo zosizo lokuqala
Hlala uphephile
- Ungalokothi uthinte, ubambe noma ugcone isilwane sasendle, ngisho noma sincane, futhi ngisho noma sibukeka silele noma sifile.
- Sinike isikhala. Uma uhlangana naso, hlala uzolile, uhlehle kancane bese usiyeka sihambe ngendlela yaso.
- Uma usithintile noma usidlile: ungahlikihli amehlo noma umlomo wakho, geza izandla zakho futhi uthole usizo lwezokwelapha.
Asikuzingeli wena. Ushevu waso ukhona nje ukuze kungabikho okusidlayo. Okwengeziwe mayelana nokuhlala uphephile
Sikhulu kangakanani?
Side kangakanani?
Sisinda kangakanani?
side njengezitini zamathoyizi ezingu-10 ezilandelanayo
singahamba amamitha ali-100 ngemizuzwana engu-72 (umuntu oshesha kunabo bonke udinga engu-9,6)African crested rat mkhulu kangakanani uma uqhathanisa NAWE?
Yizibalo nje kusiphequluli sakho. Akukho okulondolozwayo noma okuthunyelwa ndawo.
Sishesha kangakanani?
Amaqiniso
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
Umqothuli wezinganekwane
Inganekwane: The maned rat was believed to be solitary.
Iqiniso: 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
Okongoti bobuthi
- Igama lesayensi
- Lophiomys imhausi
- Iqembu
- Ezinye izilwane ezinoshevu
- Umndeni
- Muridae2
- Ukuhleleka
- Rodentia
- Amazwekazi
- I-Afrika
- Izinsana
- 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
- Simo saso endle
- Least Concern1
- Ingozi ebantwini
- 3 / 5: Kubi kakhulu3
Lapho amaqiniso evela khona
- Maned rat (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Lophiomys imhausi (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa ngezigaba.
- Venom Wiki: izinga lengozi, usayizi ojwayelekile nesiqagela sejubane kungokwethu. Bona ukuthi sikubala kanjani: Indlela esilinganisa ngayo ingozi.
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