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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Hispid Cotton Rat

For Students 4th - 8th
The Hispid Cotton Rat's fur is sprinkled or streaked with blackish or dark brownish and grayish hairs. The Rats molt, losing and getting a new coat, three times in three months as they move through juvenile and subadult stages and into...