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Rodents are small furry mammals belonging to the order Rodentia. On Earth, rodents are the largest and most diverse group of all mammalian animals. Well-known rodents include rats, mice, squirrels, porcupines, beavers, gophers, hamsters, and capybaras. Different species of rodents and other rodent-like creatures could be found throughout the galaxy.
Rats
Rats are long tailed rodents commonly regarded by many humans as invasive pests. They are distinguished from mice in their larger size and some are often kept as pets or used for scientific study.
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A live rat in Crow's Nest.
a deceased rat.
A rat scurrying in the city of Mombasa.
Squirrels
Squirrels are a small mammalian species native to Earth on several continents. Squirrels are herbivorous, eating a basic diet of nuts, small plants and seeds. They also live in trees in order to hide from predators and to raise young.
Similar animals, also referred to as "squirrels", have been noted to live on several planets, including Reach until its destruction by the Covenant. The young Spartan-IIs survived several days on squirrels during one of their war game sessions with Tango Company, where they had to capture a flag.[1]
Janissary James, musing about food in which milk that came from an unspecified source is used, suggested that the milk could come from squirrels.[2]
A squirrel-like species, called Ghost squirrels, inhabited the colony world Dwarka.[3]
Other
Zeta Halo rodent?
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List of appearances
- Halo: First Strike
- I love bees
- Halo 2 (Mentioned only)
- Halo 3
- Halo: Evolutions
- Halo: Reach
- Halo: Smoke and Shadow (Mentioned only)
- Halo Infinite
Sources
- ^ Halo: First Strike, page 161 ("Last night Fred had fed the guard dogs a paste made of a few squirrels they'd caught")
- ^ Axon apartment_squirrels.wav: "Right now, I'm imagining someone milking those big black apartment squirrels."
- ^ Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe, page 20