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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.