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Mammalogy (MAMMALS) with Danielle N. Lee

Ologies with Alie Ward

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The Pouch Rats

In 2003, there was a US outbreak that according to the CDC involved 47 confirmed and probable cases of monkey pox. And all those cases stemmed from prairie dogs, which were infected by Gambian pouched rats. They have cheek pouches like hamsters; they can reach their hand out and undo the cage or for the smaller ones, move their food hutch because it slide in - then they would use that to escape out. So imagine like a chihuahua with a long tail and a Mickey Mouse hat or like a possum, but the rats just imagine huge rats.

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