Flores Giant Rat....er, somewhere

look to the right of the bit where the two white branches cross each other and there's sort of a squiggly brown vine. The two wiggly glowing things to the right off that are the eye-shine of the rat. Really! The photo was taken by torchlight while holding the camera in one hand, the torch in the other, and trying to focus as well. Very difficult and not at all successful!

The Flores Giant Rat

September 6th 2011
The morning after the Komodo trip I took a motorbike to Tebedo, the nearby village which I was constantly assured was home to Wallace's hanging parrots and giant rats. I met up with Frans who lives there (and who was the one doing all the assuring) and we went into the forest where he grows coffee to find parrots. There were none. "Lots of nuri here yesterday morning," he says. I don't thi ... read more

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