Desert Packrat (Neotoma lepida) in a Century Plant (Agave americana) in Joshua Tree, California, USA, April 2015. Photo by Jules Jardinier
Date 30 March 2015, 09:30:31
Author Jules Jardinier
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Desert_Packrat_(Neotoma_lepida)_in_a_Century_Plant_(Agave_americana).JPG

The desert woodrat (Neotoma lepida) is a species of pack rat native to desert regions of western North America. Desert woodrats range from southeastern Oregon and southwestern Idaho, south through Nevada and western Utah to California in the US, and Baja California and extreme northwestern Sonora in Mexico.