It looked like half rat and half guinea pig
GizaTheCat
I hope someone here can help me ID a rodent I saw in an old movie. The critter
was "playing the part of a rat", but didn't look like any rat I've seen before.
It was in a tropical island set movie called "Heaven Knows Mr. Allison", circa
late 1950s or early 1960s, and is crawling around Mr. Allison's face as he is
hiding from the Japanese.
It appeared to be a very large rat, but its head and face seemed larger than a
rat and its backside was very guinea pig shaped. It had no tail what-so-ever.
Were tail-less rats being bred back then? Or are there wild rats with no
tails?
Just curious.
Thanks,
Lydia
Everett, WA
Tracey
Maybe it was some sort of small marsupial or another species native to
Australia. I 've seen Steve Urwin on 'Animal Planet' investigating rat-like
creatures in the rain forests.
By the way, there are tailess fancy rats around, called 'bobtail' or 'Manx'.
These originate from a mutation first discovered in 1942, in the US. For
years these rats were only to be found in laboratories. The first Manx to
be bred by a rat fancier was born in the US in 1983 and was the offspring of
two Siamese rats imported from Britain.
Tracey
td...@windstream.net
> Hi Rodents!
>
> I hope someone here can help me ID a rodent I saw in an old movie. The critter
> was "playing the part of a rat", but didn't look like any rat I've seen before.
> It was in a tropical island set movie called "Heaven Knows Mr. Allison", circa
> late 1950s or early 1960s, and is crawling around Mr. Allison's face as he is
> hiding from the Japanese.