“It was for sale on a table next to some vegetables,” says conservation biologist Robert Timmins, “And I knew immediately it was something I had never seen before.” The rock rat, as it's called, is a completely new species of rodent. The creature looks like a cross between a large dark rat and a squirrel, but is actually more closely related to guinea pigs and chinchillas. People in the Khammouan region of Laos prepare it by roasting it on a skewer. Link.
May 12, 2005
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