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dusky-footed woodrat

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Noun1.dusky-footed woodrat - host to Lyme disease tick (Ixodes pacificus) in northern California
bushytail woodrat, Neotoma cinerea, trade rat, pack rat, packrat - any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects


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Suggested reservoirs in the West include the dusky-footed woodrat (Neotoma fuscipes), for which chronic infection has been observed, and the western gray squirrel (Sciurus griseus), which are frequently infected in nature (5,6).
California's oaks provide a substantial and reliable source of food to legions of animals both large and small, from the threatened northern spotted owl to the dusky-footed woodrat it hunts.
In addition, in 2006, a portion of the proposed mining operation was determined to be a habitat for the San Francisco Dusky-Footed Woodrat, a California species of concern.
 
 
 
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