Talk:Bosavi woolly rat

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No fear[edit]

I removed the "has no fear of humans"

I readded as the source says it. Rgood erm ote 23:35, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

But that is for the individual rat —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.80.83.97 (talk) 03:30, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Image?[edit]

Uhm. I'm new so I'm not sure how you go about this. Here's a link to CNN with an image of the rat. [1] --GSouthern Force (talk) 02:48, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Looks to me like that's not an actual photo of the newly discovered rat, just a photo of a similar one.

"The newly discovered rat is similar in size and weight to this one found by scientists in 2007." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.213.214.82 (talk) 03:20, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wallace Line?[edit]

What's a placental (?) rodent doing on the tree-kangaroo side of Wallace's Line? Andy Dingley (talk) 23:00, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]