[Aztlan] more rats & Wikipedia (?)

[Jackson, Margaret]

Hello Listeros, 

No disrespect here, but if any of my students handed in something with Wikipedia as a "source" they would get a bad grade! 

Does anyone have any actual scholarly sources on this question? 

M. Jackson
Miami




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From: aztlan-bounces at lists.famsi.org on behalf of Dave Pentecost
Sent: Tue 5/20/2008 4:18 PM
To: Karen Bassie
Cc: aztlan at lists.famsi.org
Subject: Re: [Aztlan] more rats
 
In fact, Wikipedia has an entry on "New World Rats and Mice" that says
nothing about "true rats":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_rats_and_mice

According to other sources regarding the largest of these animals, the
genus Neotoma (also known as the woodrat), it is distributed from
Nicaragua northward through the western United States and southern
Canada.

I have a newfound interest in this due to the sudden plague of rats on
my block in the gentrified East Village of New York. When we were a
slum (circa 1980) we had no such problem. Now that we have gardens
across from trendy restaurants who put their trash out every night in
plastic bags, the situation is Dickensian. Of course these are the
"true" Norway rats who predate us all on the island.

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Karen Bassie <rick.bassie at nucleus.com> wrote:
> Wikipedia is wrong (again). There are a large number of New World rats.
> Take a look at Fiona Reid's A field guide to the Mammals of Central
> America and Southeast Mexico. K.
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