MANILA, Philippines --- For the two newly discovered species of rodents in the mountains of Luzon, peanut butter isn't all the craze. Give them earthworms instead, and they'll slurp them up like spaghetti. A team of Filipino and American scientists discovered the new species of "shrew-rats" in Camarines Sur and Aurora provinces, highlighting anew the richness of the country's biodiversity amid threats to the habitats of many species yet to be known. Tweezer-beaked In a paper recently published in the Journal of Mammalogy, the distinctive rodents, often called "tweezer-beaked hopping rats," were named Rhynchomys labo and Rhynchomys mingan. Rhynchomys comes from the anci...
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