12/17/2007

RATS THAT WALK ON TWO.

We have even bigger rats in Malaysia, they saunter up and down the corridors of power and walk on their two hind legs. These rats have no fear for man or God and dripping with honey, they talk with the forked tongue of adder snakes.
Researchers in a remote jungle in Indonesia have discovered a giant rat and a tiny possum that are apparently new to science, underscoring the stunning biodiversity of the Southeast Asian nation, scientists said Monday.
"The giant rat is about five times the size of a typical city rat," said Kristofer Helgen, a scientist with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. "With no fear of humans, it apparently came into the camp several times during the trip."

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