First Sighting of Adorable Red-Crested Tree Rat in 113 Years

If only its name was half as cute as its little, furry, endangered face. According to Wired, the red-crested tree rat simply sauntered out into the open earlier this month at a Colombian nature reserve, after a century-long hiatus from the public eye. This caused much excitement among the reserve’s volunteers—presumably not unlike the chaos

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First Sighting of Adorable Red-Crested Tree Rat in 113 Years

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