A Loation rock rat (or similar rodent) climbing up the bamboo rose cage in the garden of 35 Tongshan Road, Hongkou, Shanghai

A Loation rock rat (or similar rodent) climbing up the bamboo rose cage in the garden of 35 Tongshan Road, Hongkou, Shanghai

Collection

Hutchinson Family

Identifier

Hn01-126

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Hn01-126. This unusual rodent looks like Laonastes aenigmamus (Loation rock rat, sometimes also called a rat-squirrel), a species ‘discovered’ in 1998 in Laos.

Location

Shanghai

Estimated Date

1915-1919

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph