9 February 2024

Rodent ID in Singapore (2024)

Hello everyone,

I have travelled through Singapore for a week beginning of January. It was an extremely rainy week and that has impacted quite a lot the actual time spent looking for wildlife but we ended up seeing some 16-18 mammal species! We encountered quite a few rodents and I am struggling to identify most of them. Most of the sightings were brief and photography was challenging but I have some twenty pictures of some of the rats we observed. See attachment: 4 pages, 19 pictures and some 4-5 possible species seen.

Would you be able to help to identify these species? Any feedback on the tentative identification in the document?

Thanks a lot in advance for your help!

Jonas

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Rodents seen in Singapore JL 2024_01

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jonaslivet

I am a French biologist and I have cultivated a very strong interest for wildlife and mammals in particular since my early childhood (1,001 mammal species observed until May 2023 and more than 1,750 bird species). I have been lucky to travel the world to see animals in their natural ecosystems but also in captive settings. I have been interested indeed in the way zoological institutions have evolved and are currently developing (more than 1,800 zoological institutions visited and studied across the globe). I am currently working as a consultant within the French zoo consultancy named Fox Consulting (http://www.fox-zooconsulting.com/en/). A taxonomical database of my wildlife pictures are available on my website http://www.leszoosdanslemonde.com/galerie-animaliere.php.

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