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Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Sciurognathi
Family : Muridae
Subfamily : Sigmodontinae
Species : Kunsia tomentosus
The Woolly giant rat is listed as Vulnerable (VU), considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild, on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Namings for the woolly giant rat
A young / baby of a woolly giant rat is called a 'kitten, nestling, pinkie or pup'. The females are called 'doe' and males 'buck'. A woolly giant rat group is called a 'colony, horde, pack, plague or swarm'.
Facts about the woolly giant rat
Woolly Giant Rat or Kunsia tomentosus is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Vulnerable due to C2a. (Full text)