This was so cool, had to share!
(my wife wouldn’t agree)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090820/sc_livescience/giantplanteatsrodents
Don’t think it could eat the giant African Pouch Rat at 15 pounds tho.
I’d get one as a pet except they don’t make good pets if you don’t handle them alot, and they’re probably illegal in the US tho I see websites where people have them.
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=african+pouched+rats+for+sale&aq=1&aqi=g5&fp=c9fe100d9e542c1e
They actually use them to sniff for unexploded mines, poor things!
I had a regular fruit rat climb up to our 2nd story porch and take tomatoes off vines, and eat cucumber seedlings, every night around midnight.
I finally got a rat (not mouse) trap, put a cherry tommie on the trigger and set it out late one night. I was working on the computer and heard it yelp so I went outside. Was pretty scary looking, poor thing. A trail of blood and it was twitching a few feet away with brains coming out. I still feel sorry for it even tho it had to die. I wonder what the people who pick thru the trash here think when they come across a dead rat in a bag?