The bamboo rat mainly eats bamboo.

The bamboo rat is named for eating bamboo, so bamboo is the best food for breeding bamboo rats. Prefer to inhabit in bamboo forests, horsetail pine forests and mountainous areas under the grass on the sunny slopes, living under the campsite, burrowing. They are more active at night, eat less and sleep more during the day, and eat vigorously at night. Its activity pattern can be divided into activity cycle and rest cycle. There is no drinking habit, and water is mostly taken in from food.

The bamboo rat likes to live in a quiet, dark, clean, dry, light appropriate, fresh air environment, like warmth, low-temperature resistant, not resistant to high temperature, like to hide in the corner of the light is very weak, the living temperature of -8 ~ 35 ℃, the optimal temperature of 8 ~ 28 ℃.

Bamboo rats are categorized as:

1. Chinese bamboo rats

The Chinese bamboo rat is mainly distributed in the central and southern China, northern Myanmar and Vietnam. Specific provinces in China such as Guangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan, Fujian, Hunan, Guizhou, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Anhui, Hubei, western Sichuan, Chongqing, southern Gansu, southern Shaanxi and northern Hubei.

2, silver star bamboo rat

Silver star bamboo rat is mainly distributed in the southeastern region of China and India, Malay Peninsula and other places. Such as Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan, Guangdong, Fujian and other places in China. It lives underground and feeds on reed grass roots, leucaena roots, bamboo roots, bamboo joints and bamboo leaves.

3, flower white bamboo rats

Flower white bamboo rats are mainly distributed in northern Gui and western Yunnan and other places. The body shape is similar to the Chinese rat. The weight is about 2 kilograms. Pure white and gray and white, by the Chinese bamboo rat gene mutation, extremely rare.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Bamboo Rat