Giant Rat discovered - Lost Land of the Volcano - BBC One



http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature An international team of scientists, cavers and wildlife filmmakers venture deep into the heart of the remote tropical island of New Guinea to explore a giant extinct volcano - Mount Bosavi. The team live deep in the rainforest and search for the rare and endangered creatures that hide in these forests.

Comments

  1. he's absolutely beautiful!!! I want to take him home with me :)
  2. I finally saw a rat I didn't want to smash. Cool video.
  3. Biggest rat you've ever seen? Come down to the swamps and marshlands of Louisiana. Those Nutria and their long orangish red teeth would make you shit your pants.
  4. Does someone else agree,that rat was adorable...
  5. in 0:16 i see the tail of the rat in two colours(it seems half of the tail is a dark grey,the other part of the tail from the middle to the tip looks pale or dirty white)
    Question:Is there a relationship to gambian/emins pouched rat?
  6. Man, I remember reading a book about giant rats attacking people and biting their fingers off in a book when I was little. They said some man was swarmed by rats in NYC, and his fingers, eye balls, toes, and dick was chewed off by rats. You mean the book was lying? This the shit they had my reading in 3rd grade too
  7. rodents of unusual size? i guess they do exist, but they are much friendlier than previously thought
  8. scary looking at first but then it kinda got cool. Looked all chilled out, not aggressive and just laid back. Too bad it was filthy n in the mucky mud. I wanna see what that thing is like all cleaned up. Then I'd probably feed it to a huge python or something
  9. is it caching seeds ? Looks as a good candidate given the body size.
  10. This Rat could killa mongoose
  11. so cool
  12. To me, it's seems just a little bit TOO docile to be a caught on the spot wild rat. It's letting them pull it by it's tail and pet it. Wouldn't a wild rat try to run and/or bit if held by the tail? Even if it's never seen a human in it's life? Seems like it could be somebody's pet and being used on this program in an untruthful way...
  13. Papua New Guinea is my country
  14. looking like master splinter
  15. Rat's so big you'll call him Sensei.
  16. That's a very old rat.
  17. splinter
  18. thing probably has a ballbag the size of a baseball
  19. A harbinger of doom to come
  20. we call it lisis in our place... some are bigger than that


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Visibility: 667927

Duration: 1m 40s

Rating: 1207