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The researchers placed the small-eared pygmy rice rat into a plastic chamber and piped in anesthetic gas until it rolled over, asleep.

It is a rice rat, not a pygmy rice rat.

The 5,000-acre forest is home to around two dozen species of concern for conservationists, including the state-threatened timber rattlesnake and rice rat, and, possibly, the federally endangered Indiana bat.

"The rice rat extinction is itself a major extinction event, but it is only a component of the wider loss of mammals across the entire Caribbean basin," said Dr Turvey.

We had a brief visit from Gulliver, the juvenile dusky rice rat we’ve encountered in multiple locations at this site, in a point within the pasture.