Yesterday when I went out fishing, I came across a water rat, which was a foot long, like a big cat, which startled me, thinking that it was something ghostly, and a black clump swam towards me hula, and on closer inspection, it turned out to be this guy. Isn't it a bit like a mouse, haha, not a bit like it, it's just!
Come back to Baidu: Water rats are commonly known as water rats, inhabit near water, have a certain diving ability, but can not live in the water for a long time. Water rats breathe through their lungs and generally come out day and night, foraging for sick and dead fish.
It is said that the water rat in northern South America has a head and body length of 1-1.3 meters and a weight of up to 79 kg. Feeding this species in a cage can reach up to 113 kg, making it the largest class of rodents in nature.
Our place is not as big as the Water Rats of South America, usually about twenty centimeters, and the larger ones we have seen are more than a foot long. Much larger than the house mouse, seen less during the day, seen more at night, this is a kind of animal that comes out of the day and night (rats, of course).
The water rat is also a kind of mouse, no because it is higher than the house mouse in the water, it swims very fast, the head is on the surface of the water, four small short legs can be rowed, will also be water, the head is buried in the water, swimming very fast. A big black blob in the water, very intimidating.
We are the Yellow River beach area, there is more water, known as the small jiangnan of northern Henan. Usually, we all look for a suitable place in the ditch, but today we have a new place, on a small river along the west edge of the embankment. The water was very clear, so it was clear to see that this water rat had gray-brown fur, a dark yellowish-brown head and neck, round eyes, and a black nose sniffing everywhere.
I carefully looked for a while on the shore, found that there is a depression in the grass not far from the River, open the grass to see, it is a hole, it is estimated to be the nest of the water rat, our small river has fish and shrimp, there are also loach eel, so the food of the water rat is very rich. No wonder it grew so big.
It is said that the water rats are one-on-one pairs, and the husband said that he has seen more than once, and the two water rats swim in pairs in the water to hunt, which shows that this is also an amorous animal. I haven't seen pairs, and this time I've seen a single one, maybe just watching the kids at home. Ha ha