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  • chinchilla rat

    The other species, C. ashaninka (named for the Ashaninka people of the region), appears to be arboreal, and little is known of its habits. It was first described in 1999 from a single specimen obtained at 3,370 metres in the cloud forest of southern Peru, about 200 km…

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    The other species, C. ashaninka (named for the Ashaninka people of the region), appears to be arboreal, and little is known of its habits. It was first described in 1999 from a single specimen obtained at 3,370 metres in the cloud forest of southern Peru, about 200 km…

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