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Niviventer rapit
Basic stats
Diet
Fruit, seeds, insects (presumed, typical for Niviventer)
Habitat
Montane forest
Range
Endemic to Borneo (mountains)
Litter size
Poorly documented (typical for Niviventer)
Gestation period
Unrecorded in the wild
Size
Medium (head-body ~14–17cm, tail markedly longer than body)
Weight
~70–120g (typical for the genus)
A Bornean montane forest rat with a tail considerably longer than its body, even by the standards of an already long-tailed genus, restricted to cool high-elevation habitat.
Presumed nocturnal and arboreal to semi-arboreal like its lowland relatives, though specific field data on this montane species remains limited.
