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- noun A
packrat (kind of rodent).
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Examples
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A packrat, also known as a woodrat, from the Great Basin of Utah is surrounded by mildly toxic juniper leaves that make up much of its diet.
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Smaller mammals include Columbia ground squirrel, flying squirrel, marten, redtail chipmunk, and bushytail woodrat.
Northern Rocky Mountain Forest-Steppe - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey)
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Wildlife biologists say the troublesome invaders — dumped in the Everglades by pet owners who no longer want them — have become a pest and pose a significant threat to endangered species like the wood stork and Key Largo woodrat.
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Characteristic small mammals include southern plains woodrat (Neotoma micropus), and Mexican spiny pocket mouse (Liomys irroratus).
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The eastern woodrat (Neotoma floridana), found on the cliff faces and boulder piles of water gaps, has been classified as threatened in Pennsylvania (Genoways, 1985, p. 362).
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)
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Besides the northern water shrew and the pika, Brown found the ermine, the Uinta chipmunk, the yellowbelly marmot, the bushytail woodrat, and nine other species of small mammals on mountaintops within the Great Basin.
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The pika and the bushytail woodrat and the northern water shrew found themselves stranded—just as the brown bandicoot and the wombat had been stranded, at about the same time, on those land-bridge islands between mainland Australia and Tasmania.
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Besides the northern water shrew and the pika, Brown found the ermine, the Uinta chipmunk, the yellowbelly marmot, the bushytail woodrat, and nine other species of small mammals on mountaintops within the Great Basin.
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