Eastern Woodrat
Neotoma floridana
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 314
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The eastern woodrat (Neotoma floridana), also known as the Florida woodrat or bush rat, is a pack rat native to the central and Eastern United States. It constructs large dens that may serve as nests for many generations and stores food in outlying caches for the winter. While widespread and not uncommon, it has declined or disappeared in several areas.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Eastern woodrat”.