THE WORLD’S BIGGEST RODENT.

A super-sized, or giant rat, has been discovered in Madagascar.
This mother, a brown rat or ‘rattus norvigecus, weighs in at 7.7kg. This is about the size of a six-month-old baby.

The pic below is a rat of about the same size that was found in China.

The biggest specimen of this species of rat found to date was 1.5kg, according to the doctor responsible for pest control in Madagascar's health department.
Some have speculated that the rat might have escaped from a laboratory where it was fed an unusual diet that could explain its size.
This of course raised my curiosity.
I wondered if this was the biggest rat ever found.

Lo and Behold.
South America’s Capybara is not officially a rat, but it is indeed a rodent.
To me that’s a rat!

This ratrodent regularly weighs in at over 90kg and attains upwards of a metre in size from nose to base of tail.
Base of tail, because thy do not have an actual tail.

Kader Khan
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