Giant Rat

Post by **PeteC** » Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:02 am

Watch this video and be amazed. I swear I saw one of these dining on a garbage can in Bangkok.

Pete

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_ne ... 210394.stm

Post by **migrant** » Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:34 am

Looks like the ones from Detroit when I was a kid!!

Post by **lomuamart** » Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:50 am

Get yourself to Papua New Guinea, Pete. Havn't had a chance to read this article yet:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... new-guinea

Edit: I knew it - it's the same story.

Post by **Randy Cornhole** » Mon Sep 07, 2009 8:48 am

According to the video its found nowhere else but PNG...? I think you must have had your beer goggles on prcscct...

Post by **PeteC** » Mon Sep 07, 2009 8:55 am

Randy Cornhole wrote:According to the video its found nowhere else but PNG...? I think you must have had your beer goggles on prcscct...

His cousins immigrated a long time ago on a slow boat to Siam.

Interesting that they're not afraid of humans which means apparently they haven't been hunted for food, unlike their Thai rice field cousins. Pete

Post by **Nereus** » Mon Sep 07, 2009 9:01 am

Several years ago, I think it was around the time of the economic crisis, there was a place in a Northern Provence where they were farming "giant rats". The woman that owned the farm went broke and released them all into the surrounding countryside.

There were photos of them in the Bangkok Post at the time, and they looked just the same as the one shown in the video.

Post by **STEVE G** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:15 am

It's certainly a big rat, but I couldn't help noticing the title of the BBC article, "Giant rat found in 'lost volcano' ". How the hell can you lose a volcano? It's a big mountain with fire coming out of the top!

Post by **Nereus** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 9:03 am

Here is the Thai version: