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Cotton Rat

Sigmodon

Photo by Robert Emond
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Field Notes

Description:

Gray rodent with a fleshy tail, brown nose black eyes and white underside.

Habitat:

Fields, more precisely cotton fields. They get their name from the nests they build are made of cotton.

Notes:

I spotted this at St Marks National Wildlife Reserve. There was an explosion of these rats. I've never seen them and then all of a sudden there were about a dozen.

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Wildlife of the South East, USA
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Florida Wetlands
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Florida's Flora & Fauna
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Gulf Coast Wildlife
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Biodiversity of SouthEastern US
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PublishedJuly 4, 2019

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