Our local Zoo

Friday, 3 July 2009
Balikpapan, Indonesia

It is amazing the number of cockroaches, and the size of the rats
running around here in our residence in Balikpapan. I just went to the
kitchen and felt something soft touching my naked feet; a rat almost as
big as a cat!

Almost every night we can hear sounds from the kitchen area, and
typically in the morning the trash bin is spilled over the floor (and
the chicken bones gone). Fair enough, the neighbour’s cats, which have
free access from the roof down to the kitchen, are also to blame…

Below a picture of a small version of a rat which did not make it, and
instead underwent a decomposition process with the big help from one of
our many armies of ants (I have seen at least 3 species of ants in this
house).


Decomposing rat.

One response

  1. cil comments:

    Le Rat is well fed and happy!! But this rat in the pic doesnt look so happy…

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