He thought for a second that Brushtail had caught Stubby Woodchuck, but it proved to be no one but a large and ugly old woodrat that had lately grown so cross and savage that all the little creatures of the Big Green Woods were afraid of him.
Brushtail dropped the woodrat down before the little foxes, and how they did did begin pulling and biting him!
A big woodrat ran through some dead leaves and made a good deal of noise.
The woodratlived in several plum thickets that provided the type of shelter from predators that it requires.
Many houses of the woodrat were built around old stumps at the bases of large, spreading osage orange trees.
In the mid-forties when the woodrat population was high, there were many of the rats' stick houses in the groves, built either at the bases of the trunks or among the dense branchlets in tops of fallen trees.
In the forties, when the woodrat was common on the area, its local distribution seemed to be determined mainly by the osage orange.
In a bare space atop the boulder were several recent woodrat droppings, small and obviously produced by an immature individual, which, perhaps, had recently settled at this old house site.
On several occasions these snakes have been found on or beside woodrat houses, or have escaped into them.
After approximately two minutes, a soft, high pitched whine was heard and immediately another woodrat dashed into view closely followed by the female.
Occupancy of such an old woodrat house by white-footed mice may continue long after abandonment of the house by the rat, even after the house has partly decayed and settled to a small part of its original volume.
Although the eastern woodrat is relatively unspecialized in its feeding habits, a few species of favored food plants probably make up the greater part of its diet.
Food of the easternwoodrat consists chiefly of vegetation; many kinds of leaves, fruits, and seeds are eaten.
Sign of spotted skunk was noted frequently on various parts of the Reservation, especially along the hilltop ledges which were the best woodrat habitat.
A woodrat may shift frequently from one house to another, especially if unoccupied houses are readily available.
Nevertheless, our records emphasize the potentially greater longevity of the woodrat as contrasted with the various smaller rodents living in the same area.
The adult male woodrat that lived in the garage had evidently spent much time moving about the carcass and over it, and feeding upon it.
On one occasion a young woodrat was caught in a mouse trap set in a meadow, a habitat into which adult woodrats would scarcely be expected to venture.
Movements The woodrat is dependent on the stick houses that it constructs for shelter.
The local distribution of thiswoodrat is determined by suitable nesting sites.
The remains of an adult woodrat were found in the stomach of a rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis helleri) obtained on the desert slope of the mountains.
This woodratbuilt no nests in rocky areas; however, in the Joshua tree belt N.
In these patches there were thirteen occupied woodrat nests.
Judging from the large number of unused woodrat nests in the Joshua tree flats it seemed that this rat was formerly far more common than it was in the period of this study.
In an acre of scrub oak and mountain mahogany brush one-half mile north of Jackson Lake, at 6100 feet, thirteen occupied woodrat nests were found.
So many of the rodents caught in traps near woodrat nests were partly eaten--usually the brains were taken--that I suspect the woodrats of eating their relatives.
In the sagebrush belt only an occasional large patch of cactus lacks a woodrat house occupied by lepida.
Neotoma lepida lepida= Thomas Desert Woodrat These woodrats were present in rocky situations along the desert slope from the lower edge of the juniper belt down into the desert.
Because it often grew in a twisted irregular form with the foliage nearly reaching the ground, the oak offered good shelter for the woodrat nests.
The heads of many composite annuals were piled near woodrat nests.
One old prospector told me of a woodrat that had been bothering him for a long time.
Description: This woodratwill be recognized at once by its bushy, squirrel-like tail.
As has been mentioned, the woodrat is usually associated with the pines of the Transition Life Zone and above, and pine nuts are one of its most popular items of food.
One may assume that without either woodrator coffee he slept soundly thereafter.
Then, like most rodents, the woodratwill thump with its hind legs as an alarm signal.
Although classed as a nocturnal animal, the bushy-tailed woodrat is often active throughout the daylight hours.
The woodrat would come up through a hole in the corner of the room as soon as the lights were out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "woodrat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
