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Nutrition and Habitat





             ● Nutrition

             M. natalensis is a generalist species feeding on available
             resources depending on the season and the habitat. Its

             preference for grain may account for its abundance in

             maize plantations and confirms it as one of the major pests.































             Natural Habitat




                • Natural Habitat:



                Its  natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical

                or tropical moist lowland forest, dry savanna, moist savanna,

                subtropical or tropical dryshrub land, subtropical or tropical moist


                shrub land, arable land, pastureland, rural gardens, urban areas,

                irrigated land, and seasonally flooded agricultural land. These rats

                associate closely with humans, and are commonly found in and


                around African villages.
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