The Australian zoologist (1973) (20324605676), Sydney, NSW, Australia

Title: The Australian zoologist

Identifier: australianzoolog18191roya (find matches)

Year: 1914 (1910s)

Authors: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales; Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. Proceedings

Subjects: Zoology; Zoology; Zoology

Publisher: (Sydney, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales)

Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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MAMMALS OF STURT NATIONAL PARK

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Fig. 2. Long-haired Rat (Rattus villosissimus) Territory during wet periods. However, Watts and Aslin (1974) believe that R. villosissimus are always present in small numbers in pockets of favourable habitat from which they spread out during wet seasons. If this is so, then a pocket of favourable habitat for the long-haired rats was the area studied at Sturt National Park (the same area as described for Mus musculus. Here the rodents had estab- lished two types of burrow system. The most common type was a shallow hollowing out of the soft, moist ground which lies beneath the dry, hardened crust of surface soil. This type of burrow appears to be used as temporary cover for the rats, possibly as protection against predators. The other type of burrow is more extensive and many of those dug up contained a nesting chamber of dried grass. This burrow resembled a small rabbit warren in that several side passages were always present and several separate bur- row systems were usually found together in an area of soil suitable for burrowing. Finlayson (1939) describes a similar burrow system for R. villosissimus from the Lake Eyre Basin and I have found these burrows in the Cooper's Creek region (Windorah, Queensland). Nesting chambers would indicate that these rodents Aust. Zool. 18(3), 1975 183

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