Cute and furry Australian native bush rats — that were deemed ‘locally missing” — are being reintroduced into bushland in Sydney’s north.

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Conservation ecologist Mareshell Wauchope's favourite feature of the Australian bush rat (Rattus fuscipes) is its smell. "Their odour is this beautiful, sort of smoky, almost tobacco-like scent, akin ...

An introduced black rat scratches through leaf litter, looking for food. Nearby, a native water rat watches on, its beady eyes shining. The native rat pounces out from the shadows, sending the invader ...

An intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo, thought to be probably extinct, may still be running around in the inhospitable remote Sturt Stony Desert—and Flinders University researchers have ...

This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. By day, the shrubby clifftops of North ...

Twenty-four Australian bush rats will be reintroduced into an urban nature reserve in Sydney this weekend. Half of the rats will be left in areas where pieces of towel, carrying their individual musk, ...