That said, the bamboo rat is an interesting species. They spend most of their time in subterranean burrows, feeding on the ...

By weight, they’re the second largest rat species in the world. (The largest by weight is the Sumatran bamboo rat (Rhizomys sumatrensis) which can weigh up to 3.9kg, or 8.6 pounds. Yes ...

Neil McCarthy journeys deep into the remote hills of North East India where millions of rats are invading and decimating crops - as they do twice a century with the flowering of bamboo - leaving ...