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| Subspecies: | Unknown |
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| CITES Status: | NOT LISTED |
| IUCN Status: | Least Concern |
| U.S. ESA Status: | NOT LISTED |
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| Jumping Ability: | (Horizontal) |
| Life Span: | in the Wild |
| Life Span: | in Captivity |
| Sexual Maturity: | (Females) |
| Sexual Maturity: | (Males) |
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Habitat:
This nocturnal and arboreal species is strongly associated with multistratal tropical evergreen forest (Eisenberg and Redford 1999). Habitat generally includes bamboo and cane thickets on the margins of seasonally inundated and upland rainforest. In Ecuador specifically, this species can be found in the canopy of tall forests. (Emmons et al. 2015). It is social and forages in bamboo clumps in family groups (Eisenberg and Redford 1999). Its home ranges reach up to 0.43 ha (Eisenberg and Redford 1999). It is a varzea specialist and is rarely seen but can be heard because of its very distinctive call. Little is known on the reproductive biology of this species, but pregnant females have been reported at the end of the rainy season in June in the central Amazon (Emmons et al. 2015).
Range:
This species is distributed in the Amazon Basin from eastern Colombia south through eastern Ecuador, northern and central Peru to northeastern Bolivia and east along the Amazon River to its mouth in Brazil, extending north to the Río Orinico in Venezuela and south into the eastern Cerrado of Brazil (Fabre 2016, Emmons et al. 2015).
Conservation:
This rodent occurs in several protected areas throughout its range.