Hispid Cotton Rat
Sigmodon hispidus
At a water reclamation facility in Glendale, Arizona. 19 July 2017.
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In the Sonoran Desert these robust rats with haired tails and a pelt of long stiff hairs tend to be closely associated with irrigated agriculture and the dense weedy vegetation it supports.
Muridae -- Mouse, Vole & Rat Family
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- Mammals of Texas
- Univ. of Michigan Animal Diversity Web
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- Reference: Mammals of Arizona (1986), D. F. Hoffmeister, Univ. of Arizona Press.
- Reference: A Field Gude to the Mammals, 3rd Edition (1976), W. H. Burt, Houghton Mifflin Company.