Perhaps the last of it's kind.
Died of loneliness.
At any rate, this being the Philippines, it's as good as extinct.
Emerita Albas, DENR’s Mt. Pulag park superintendent, said the park’s mossy forests had been gradually degenerating due to the encroachment of vegetable farms.
Pesticide will probably kill it's prey, if not poison the Dwarf Cloud Rat itself.
“The Philippines may have the greatest concentration of unique biological diversity, relative to its size, of any country in the world,” Heaney told reporters here on Friday.
“They are the prime examples of why biologists refer to the country as the ‘Galapagos times 10,’” Heaney said.
Shame, then, the country has no resources much less the will to preserve this wonderful variety.
After all, not everyone thinks rats are cute. That is why World Wildlife Fund picked the Giant Panda as it's mascot.
Only the cute (à la Philippine Tarsier) or the magnificent (à la Philippine Eagle) gets money and attention.
Rats? EEEEK!
Rats.
