🥇Voted Australia’s most underrated native animal in ABCs National Science Week poll 2025, the Rakali is a wetlands favourite. Here’s a few reasons why: 🐀 Rakali are Australias largest rodent 📏 up to 70cm body length! 🐀 They can live in fresh and saltwater 🐀 Rakali are agile swimmers with partially webbed feet, water repellent fur and rudder like tail! 🐀 They are one of the few animals to eat the noxious, invasive Cane Toad 👏 🏆 Congrats Hydromys chrysogaster our lovely golden-bellied wate
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I'm seeing more and more water rats (Rakali) and platypus each year. I suspect the banning of Operahouse nets 5 or 6 years ago could have a lot to do with this. This Rakali turned up right on cue... | Robbie Alexander Photography and Fishing
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Rakali in paradise! 🐭 Rodents come in many shapes and sizes and live in a range of environments. This rodent, the Rakali or Water-rat (Hydromys chrysogaster), is particularly unique and lives in rivers, lakes and estuaries and feeds on aquatic insects, fish, crustaceans, mussels, snails, frogs, birds' eggs and water birds. 🏞️🐟 The clips show the rakali catching a small brown trout and clipping off fern fronds for nesting material in its burrow in the river bank. Filmed by Mike Bretz, Reserve
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Today is Rakali Awareness Day! 🐀😍 #BaysideNatives The name "rakali" has been adopted to refer to Australia's largest native rodent, with the aim of promoting a positive public perception of this remarkable creature. Rakali’s distinct features include a thick, dark tail with a white tip, broad fur that repels water, a flattened head with numerous whiskers, and partially webbed hind feet. Foraging primarily underwater, rakali feed on aquatic insects, small fish, crustaceans, and mussels, while o
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Our Environment Officer and local environment volunteers were thrilled to spot a Rakali (native water rat) frolicking in Kilmore Creek a few weeks ago. Platypus have also been sighted in the creek. #WorldEnvironmentDay Photo source: Museums Victoria. Photographer: David Paul. Licenced under CC BY-NC 4.0 | Mitchell Shire Council
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Rakali, formally known as a water rat preening itself on a dead tree. #rakali #waterrat #wildlife #nature | Robbie Alexander Photography and Fishing
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