Familiar Fridays - Gambian Pouched Rat

 

Although black and brown wild rats the world over can get very big -and undead- the world over, the true rodents of unusual size are Pouched Rats. They may be your nightmare OR your dream come true, depending on how you feel about rats. They’re used in Tanzania for sniffing out landmines to dismantle and for detecting tuberculous- so they’re littlebig heroes!