The bamboo rat is a protected animal.

China's Wildlife Protection Law, promulgated in 2018, stipulates that protected wildlife includes three categories: national key wildlife, local key wildlife, and terrestrial wildlife that are beneficial and have important economic and scientific research value (also known as the "three kinds of animals")

Bamboo is the most important wildlife in China.

The bamboo rat is listed as one of the three kinds of animals, and in Guangxi and other provinces, it also belongs to the provincial key protection of terrestrial wildlife. Therefore, the bamboo rat is a protected species, and if it is caught in the wild, it should never be eaten.

Habitat

The bamboo rat is named after the bamboo it eats, 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.

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 ℃.