Comments on: Mysterious Mizoram Mammal Sighted

By: Sundancer

Sundancer — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:50:46 +0000

How come I’ve never heard of these creatures before? And I should, considering the fact that I was born and brought up in Mizoram! The bamboo flowering phenomenon, the rats and the famine..yeah, we used to hear about that in school. But “giant rat-like creatures”??? That’s a first! Called up some of my friends and none of them have heard of them before either.

By: Mnynames

Mnynames — Sat, 27 May 2006 12:48:55 +0000

It will be interesting to see if this develops along more prosaic CZ lines, or if it is but the seed of another bizarre entity event, a la Monkey Man…

By: Mnynames

Mnynames — Sat, 27 May 2006 12:46:55 +0000

I’m assuming the rats eat the bamboo flowers and prosper, becoming more numerous, then move into human communities once the flower supplies run dry. Seems straightforward enough…

By: Tabitca

Tabitca — Fri, 26 May 2006 22:41:53 +0000

This link explains about the significance of the flowering bamboo and the rats, and the famine that resulted last time it happened.
Bamboo tends to flower in clumps but it can be anything from 10 years to once a century for it to do so.

By: Jeremy_Wells

Jeremy_Wells — Fri, 26 May 2006 20:58:51 +0000

hmmmm, I’m interested in why the flowering of bamboo results in rat invasions.
How often does bamboo flower? I know they have groves of it at the Casa de Luz here in Austin, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen them “flower”.

By: CryptoInformant

CryptoInformant — Wed, 24 May 2006 21:18:11 +0000

Odd… Any recent news on the Buru? I am compiling a list of CICZ Best Bets, and recent news would bump the Buru onto that list.

By: Sardokar

Sardokar — Wed, 24 May 2006 11:20:09 +0000

Maybe it’s a mutation resulting of the Bhopal tragedy.Bhopal is almost in direct line with the northeastern border so with dominants winds in that direction, maybe it’s fair to say that this region were contaminated as well.

Just a thought.

By: Ole Bub

Ole Bub — Wed, 24 May 2006 03:02:41 +0000

“You must have some very large rats to need Hatori Hanzo steel”….”Huge”…replied the Bride…

Protein is where ya find it…

ole bub and the dawgs

By: Tabitca

Tabitca — Tue, 23 May 2006 22:34:54 +0000

I like rats.We used to use them in psychology to teach students about learning.Mine was called Fred.Sadly Fred got banned after he escaped one day and ran up the security man’s leg.
There is a temple in India where they worship rats.

By: twblack

twblack — Tue, 23 May 2006 22:05:32 +0000

Keep us updated on this maybe they will catch one and we can find out if it is something new or not. One more place my wife would not be caught dead in.