Rodentia > China Rhizomys
  Also known as Chinese bamboo rat bamboo rat, mouse Mans, is MAMMALIA Rodentia Rhizomys Division. Body fat, about 25 to 35 cm, back, abdomen gray, small eyes and ears, limbs and tail is short, live in bamboo, mango bar, the cave, eating bamboo, mango bar and its underground stems. Located in China's Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Fujian, Hubei, Sichuan and northern Myanmar.
  Bamboo rat meat is delicious, low fat, high protein, and vitamins needed by the body contains iron, zinc and nutrients, are hotels, restaurants and hotels generally prefer to buy a variety of sundries, and fur processing can be developed.
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  Chinese bamboo rat (rnizomyssinehsis) also known as bamboo rat, mouse Mans, bamboo distillation, Zhugen mouse, etc., in animal taxonomy, attached to the door of vertebrates, Mammalia, Rodentia, Rhizomys Branch, bamboo rat is. Located in the vicinity of South Asia and East Africa. In our country there is a case of three, has Rhizomys, Chinese bamboo rat, gray bamboo rat. Chinese bamboo rat is one, mainly distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Fujian, Hubei, Sichuan and Myanmar. It is a specialty of China's wildlife, our captivity since the early 1990s, and success.
  The biological characteristics of the Chinese bamboo rat
  Morphology: adult length of about 25-35cm, weight 1-3kg, body color varies with age, from dark to light, the larvae into the body than the coat color coat color depth. Whole body are dark black. Adult body and the back coat is brown-gray hair long hundred Jianzhen. Both sides of the snout and slightly lighter coat. Abdominal body hair is more sparse, white and dark during which mixed with shiny hair, hair was visible through the pink skin. Individual individual dorsal and tail are gray-brown fur.
  Chinese bamboo rat thick body. Cylindrical. Head rounded, big kiss, eyes small, ears are hidden in the hair, the Tingjuelingmin. Short limbs, but thick and with claws, the movement of organs and dig feeding tool. Tail short. Thick molars incisors short. Characteristics with rodents.
  Habits: With limbs and teeth to dig, there is a strong burrowing ability. Camp cave life, nocturnal. Likes in a quiet, clean, dry, light suitable living environment, fresh air. Gentle temperament, male and female inseparable. Strong resistance, the temperature suitable for life in the -8-40 ℃, the optimum temperature at 11.7-28.5 ℃. Therefore, a wider distribution of the Chinese bamboo rat.
  Diet: Chinese bamboo rat is herbivorous animals, all kinds of bamboo that can be ingested, sugar cane, corn, roots and grass seeds and fruits for food. Lack of food, they also damage crops.
  The species has been included in the State Forestry Administration, August 1, 2000 release of "The State protects the beneficial or of important economic or scientific value of the terrestrial animal species."
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