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Upper: Fig. 26. The White-throated Wood Rat (Neotoma 



albigula) 

 Gentle animals, not closely related to our brown rats 



Lower: Fig. 27. House of the Gray Wood Rat (Neotoma 



micropus canescens) 

 Built largely of cactus and around the base of a Spanish bayonet 

 plant in the open desert. 



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