Talk:Tenerife giant rat

Mammals Low‑importance

	Mammals portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Mammals, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of mammal-related subjects on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.MammalsWikipedia:WikiProject MammalsTemplate:WikiProject Mammalsmammal articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Rodents Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Rodents, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of rodents on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.RodentsWikipedia:WikiProject RodentsTemplate:WikiProject RodentsRodent articles

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

WikiProject Rodents to-do list:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Drafts
Cleanup : Beaver dam • Bolivian hemorrhagic fever • Campbell's dwarf hamster • Fancy mouse • Golden hamster • Guinea pig breed
Expand : Bolivian hemorrhagic fever • Least chipmunk (requested) • California ground squirrel (requested) • Lemming (requested)
Merge : List of literary accounts of the Pied Piper • Mousetrap
NPOV : Birbalomys • Gambian pouched rat • Golden hamster • Hamster ball • Mountain Beaver • Pacarana • Plague (disease) • Prairie dog • Rat-catcher • Syrian hamster variations • The Rats (novel) • Tree squirrel
Stubs : Rodent stubs
Update : Baird's pocket gopher • Beaver • Black squirrel • Chinchilla • Cypriot mouse • Eurasian beaver • House mouse • Rabies
Verify : Acouchi • Aethomys • Ailuravus • Allegheny woodrat • American red squirrel • Anatole (mouse) • Anomalomyidae • Apodemus • Arctic ground squirrel • Argentine hemorrhagic fever • Armintomys • Batomys • Beaver • Beaver dam • Black-tailed prairie dog • Blesmol • Bobak marmot • Eligmodontia • Guinea pig • Mountain beaver • North American beaver • Tokudaia
Wikify : Baird's pocket gopher • Golden hamster • Indian giant flying squirrel
Other : photo requests

Extinction Low‑importance

	This article is a part of WikiProject Extinction, an attempt at creating a standardized, informative, comprehensive and easy-to-use resource on extinction and extinct organisms. If you would like to participate, you can choose to edit this article, or visit the project page for more information.ExtinctionWikipedia:WikiProject ExtinctionTemplate:WikiProject ExtinctionExtinction articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale.

English[edit]

This appears to be written by a non-English speaker. As this is in the English section in the Wikipedia, it would be useful if someone familiar with the subject could cast it in proper English. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.68.134.1 (talk) 21:21, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Inaccurate measurements?[edit]

Under the heading "Description" it states "This species was a big rat of about 1 kg (2.2 lb) or more...Including the tail, the rat was over 1.14 m (3 ft 9 in)..." One or both of these measurements would seem to be inaccurate, as they defy the usual correspondences between the weight and length of rats. For example, the full length of the brown rat ranges between 25.5cm and 52cm, with a weight range between 140g and 1kg. If the maximum estimated length of the Tenerife giant rat is more than twice that of the brown rat, one would expect its maximum weight to be at least twice that (i.e., greater than 2kg). In fact, as animal size increases, weight does not increase proportionally, but exponentially, so one would expect its maximum weight to be considerably greater. Does anyone have a source for these dimensions? The cited source does not actually state them. Bricology (talk) 20:50, 20 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]