Young Czech scientist first to document Oceania’s largest rodent

A Czech science student has made a rare discovery on the island of New Guinea. František Vejmělka from the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the University of South Bohemia became the first person in the world to capture the giant woolly rat on camera — one of the world’s largest and most elusive rodents. The animal lives high in the cold, misty mountain forests and was previously known only from old museum specimens. I asked him to tell me more about his discovery:

Can you first tell us about his elusive rodent species? How come no one has ever documented the animal before?.

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Author: Ruth Fraňková