#Luzon giant cloud rats

[internetdruid]

🥚 i cast spell of please may i have a rat <3

northern Luzon giant cloud rat! (Phloeomys pallidus)

[moonmothmama]

ok so we went to the bronx zoo again today, its been a hot second, and yeah wednesday is free day but it was practically deserted

the only place that was even moderately crowded was the cafe

and like yeah it's cold out and some of the exhibits are closed/quiet because of the weather but it was still cool as hell. highlights include walking into the house of birds and the yellow and blue macaw hollering "HELLO! HI! HELLO!" and also the elephant shrew (i love that SNOOT) and sleepy sea lions taking naps while floating and as always the Luzon bleeding heart dove (there are so many pretty pigeons and doves) and also the Luzon giant cloud rat- the thing's the size of a cat??? i wanted to hug it.

the bear exhibit was closed and so was the sea bird aviary and monorail but such is life. it's november

[poniko-w]

syumitaro is a beautiful little northern luzon giant cloud rat

[theworldismyoysterandiamthepearl]

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Scientists don’t know much about the elusive northern Luzon giant cloud rat, named for the Philippine island where it’s found. The animal dwells mainly in the upper tree branches of lowland tropical and montane rainforests, from sea level up to the high mountains. Photo taken at the Plzeň Zoo in Czechia.

from https://www.instagram.com/natgeo/

[ask-cardi-c]

im back, im delusional and im :)

rats..

what is your favourite breed of rats?

mine is either rex rat or northern luzon giant cloud rat, i love rats.

❤️ Rats ❤️

My favourite breed is the dumbo rat! Look at their big ears.

Tortellini and Rigatoni, my rattinos, are standard rats. But I would like some Dumbos and Silkies once I can afford to support more rats.

[rodentcompetition]

Rodent Competition 2023

Round 1

full list below!

Long-tailed chinchilla / Southern viscacha

Common degu / Horned gopher

Common gundi / Guinea pig

Josephoartigasia monesi / Pacarana

Patagonian mara / South African springhare

Spix's yellow-toothed cavy / Capybara

Central american agouti / Lowland paca

Laotian rock rat / Dassie rat

Least chipmunk / Eastern chipmunk

Thirteen-lined ground squirrel / California ground squirrel

Japanese dwarf flying squirrel / Tufted pygmy squirrel

Calabrian black squirrel / Red squirrel

Indian giant squirrel / Red and white giant flying squirrel

Yellow-bellied marmot / Groundhog

Cape mole-rat / Cape dune mole-rat

Naked mole rat / Big headed African mole rat

House mouse / Mongolian gerbil

Black rat / Brown rat

Rakali / Gambian pouched rat

Northern Luzon giant cloud rat / Maned rat

Cairo spiny mouse / Eurasian harvest mouse

Hungarian birch mouse / Striped grass mouse

Great jerboa / Baluchistan pygmy jerboa

Hazel dormouse / Kangaroo rat

Grasshopper mouse / Winter white dwarf hamster

Hatt's vesper rat / Syrian hamster

Norway lemming / Florida Mouse

European water vole / Townsend’s vole

Northern mole vole / Muskrat

Bristle-spined rat / Mountain beaver

North American beaver / Palaeocastor

Crested porcupine / North American porcupine

[millarelester]

Mt. Pulag National Park

 Philippines

Date of Submission: 16/05/2006

Criteria: (ix)(x)

Category: Natural

Submitted by:

Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) - Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau

State, Province or Region:

Benguet, Ifugao, and Nueva Vizcaya Provinces

Coordinates: N16 30 36 E120 50 20

Ref.: 5030

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Description

Mt. Pulag National Park lies on the north and south spine of the Grand Cordillera Central that stretches from Pasaleng, Ilocos Norte to the Cordillera Provinces. It falls within the administrative jurisdiction of two (2) Regions: Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) and Cagayan Valley (R2).

The whole park is located within the Philippine Cordillera Mountain Range and is very rugged, characterized by steep to very steep slopes at the mountainsides and generally rolling areas at the mountain peak. Mt. Pulag National Park is the highest peak in Luzon and is the second highest mountain in the Philippines with an elevation of 2,922 m. above sea level.

The summit of Mt. Pulag is covered with grass and dwarf bamboo plants. At lower elevations, the mountainside has a mossy forest veiled with fog, and full of ferns, lichens and moss. Below this is the pine forest growing on barren, rocky slopes. Falls, rivers and small lakes mark the area.

The Park has a large diversity of flora and fauna, many of which are endemic to the mountain. Its wildlife includes threatened mammals such as the Philippine Brown Deer, Northern Luzon Giant Cloud Rat and the Luzon Pygmy Fruit Bat.  One can also find several orchid species some of which are possibly endemic to Mt. Pulag, and other rare flora such as the pitcher plant.

Mt. Pulag is an important watershed providing the water necessities of many stakeholders for domestic and industrial use, irrigation, hydroelectric power production and aquaculture.

[pkmin4]

✮⋆˙ 01/27/2025

national museum of national history field trip

i went to the museum as a birthday celebration yesterday. i wanted to go alone, but i was a little sad that my younger brother keeps telling me of all the cool places his friends were going to so i took him with me. here's a collage i did of some of the neat animal models i found!

IT DID NOT SAVE THE DRAFT I DID IM SO SAD I HAVE TO DO THIS WHOLE POST ALL OVER AGAIN AAAAH. OKAY. okay. whatever. i'll just do it again. WHATEVER. let me just edit this stupid post... ughhhh.

it was either the museum of anthropology or fine arts, since i actually visited this place before for my birthday 2 years ago. but my younger brother loved animals, and whatever makes him happy i guess! me and my older brother never really had an opportunity to go on these sorts of things and he was still like a baby, so whatever makes him happy!

i treated myself and him on this very beloved japanese chain restaurant called sukiya. it is my favorite place to eat because everything is cheap and yummy :) but i could only eat a small plate of curry and lots of vegetables because of complicated health issues nowadays.. anyway here is a picture!! i am the guy who cannot wait to drink his soup.

afterwards was a 15 minute walk to the museum!! it's a good thing i saw this youtube video of some guy walking the same path or else we would have been Extremely Lost. fortunately i am just very smart to have found our way... hehehe...

we eventually arrived! and i didn't exactly take much pictures because it was distracting me. and any old photo i DID have is stuck on my old phone with the bloated battery (which means it is pretty much classified as an explosive!) .. so what i did was that i listed every neat animal i saw and made the collage above as a fun little activity! but here are some nice pictures i took. with rewritten and less cooler captions than my first iteration of this post that i can't for the life of me remember anymore. fuck you tumblr.

the museum lobby had this huuuge tall lift that i still think is super cool to look at!!

some endemic tree mouse.. meese..

the exhibit had a lovely amount of birds! lots of them! the philippines is home to these many feathered friends :)

cool bug display!! did you know that butterfly mounting used to be a rich people thing? they'd spread them and dry them out on paper which i think Hurts so it's a little sad... but it was also scientifically significant at the time... still...

me and my younger brother knew we were looking at kamen riders.

a celebrity... mr horseshoe himself...

aaand one more picture, because of the tumblr limit. the museum had lots of botany (and geology) too, but i'm not a huge botany boy cuz i saw a bug on one of my plants once, cried like a baby, and then got too scared to come near it... anyway! i do appreciate plants! at a safe distance!!

that's about it! i'm lazy to properly finish this entry because my old draft died. but it was fun. i had fun even if i visited this place already. here are the animals from my collage.. my favorite is the apple snail :)

1. giant flying fox

2. giant cloud rat

3. giant isopod

4. raccoon butterflyfish

5. banded bullfrog

6. philippine tree squirrel

7. blue headed fantail

8. philippine duck

9. channeled apple snail

10. blue tailed bee eater

11. balicassiao

12. malayan civet

13. luzon peacock swallowtail

14. green paddy frog

15. philippine bearcat

16. luzon lacewing

[saritawolff]

Hijacking this post to show off my favorite species of rat: Northern Luzon Giant Cloud Rats

They’re like What If A Panda Bear Was A Rat And Also The Size Of A Bunny

whats your favorite species of rat :3

The ones we have not found yet. For they are secret rats.

[filipeanut]

My first simple animation for @philippinewildlifeart!

This one is a dancing Yutyut or Northern Luzon Giant Cloud Rat. They look like big squirrel pandas! They are fluffy so they can survive the cold mountain tops called “Cloud Forests.”

[antiqueanimals]

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, vol. 11, Mammals II. 1972.

1.) Luzon giant cloud rat (Phloeomys cumingi)

2.) Montane African climbing mouse (Dendromus insignis)

3.) Fat mouse (Steatomys pratensis)

4.) Link rat (Deomys ferrugineus)

5.) Southern African vlei rat (Otomys irroratus)

6.) Mount Data shrew-rat (Rhynchomys soricoides)

7.) Rakali (Hydromys chrysogaster)

[karasratworld]

I know I haven’t posted here in forever but here’s a Cloud Rat celebration for you ❤️❤️ Happy birthday Yzma! At 11 she is quite old but is still as sassy as ever and she loved her rodent chow/banana cake drizzled with honey and crushed peanuts 🥰

[tlaquetzqui]

I’m thinking something roughly twice the size of Josephoartigasia, but with murid (or cricetid) proportions, modified for size, instead of caviomorph. And the largest murid rodent is the extinct Tenerife giant rat, which might have gone up to 4.5 kilos (the current largest murid is the Luzon giant cloud rat, which only weighs about 2; the largest cricetid ever, so far as I know, is either the muskrat, at half the weight of the giant cloud rat; even the extinct Gargano giant hamster, Hattomys gargantua, probably weighed less than a kilo).

If your giant mouse is a New World one you might be particularly screwed, given some of our mice are hyperterritorial venom-resistant obligate carnivores: grasshopper mice. Some of which are called scorpion mice and are the reason the bark scorpion here in Arizona is the sixth most venomous scorpion on Earth. (The mice and scorpions are in an arms race where the mice get more resistant to scorpion venom, and the scorpions get ever more venomous, in hopes of giving a mouse enough of a dose to stun it long enough for the scorpion to escape.)

Would you rather fight a mouse the size of a giraffe or a thousand mice-sized giraffes?

giraffe sized mouse

it’d be dangerous but I think the tiny giraffes would win a war of attrition

[crowonarooftop]

North Luzon Giant Cloud Rat

Truly gorgeous, very cute, they are actually very big,

Also tried to get some pictures of bats but none of them turned out well.

[mirtapersonal]

some zoo friends from the Zagreb zoo. Every time I visit the zoo, I am overwhelmed with the beauty and variety of animal life. A kind of sensory overload, too much cool stuff all at once

(Latin names in the captions): Chinese crocodile lizard, Western pygmy marmoset (the smallest primate), Northern Luzon giant cloud rat (amazing name, amazing creature), a gecko but I forgot which one exactly, Ocellaris clownfish, Solomon Islands skink

[bunjywunjy]

May i ask for a giant cloud rat fact? I love their little faces

this probably won't be a surprise for an animal with "giant" right there in its name, but Northern Luzon Giant Cloud Rats are FUCKIN HUGE. like, bigger-than-most-cats size!

these enormous fluffy critters live mostly in trees, but are happy to come down to steal unattended food or bother your dog.

in their homeland they're mostly considered a nocturnal pest animal, similar to raccoons and possums in North America.

they sure are cute, though :')