Description
English: APOPO HeroRAT rat getting food reward
Date 5 October 2009
Source Own work
Author Gooutside
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Food_Reward.JPG

The Gambian pouched rat (Cricetomys gambianus), also known as the African giant pouched rat, is a nocturnal pouched rat of the giant pouched rat genus Cricetomys, and is among the largest muroids in the world, growing up to about 0.9 metres long including their tail which makes up half their length. It is widespread in Sub-Saharan Africa, ranging geographically from Senegal to Kenya and from Angola to Mozambique (although it is absent from much of the DR Congo, where Emin's pouched rat is present) and in altitude from sea level to 2,000 metres). Order: Rodentia, Superfamily: Muroidea, Family: Nesomyidae, Subfamily: Cricetomyinae.