West African shaggy rat long as the head-and-body length; it is ringed by small scales and clad with sparse short bristles. The head-and-body length of this rat averages and the weight averages . The West African shaggy rat is native to tropical West Africa; its rangeincludes Benin, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. It inhabits wetlands and swampy areas, streams, riverbanks, lakesides, young oil-palm plantations and rice fields. The West African shaggy rat is a terrestrial species. It is nocturnal and a good swimmer. It lives in a shallow burrow, the entrance often hidden under a
Geography of the Gambia Natural resources: fish, clay, silica sand, titanium (rutile and ilmenite), tin, zircon Land use: <br>"arable land:" 43.48% <br>"permanent crops:" 0.49% <br>"other:" 56.03% (2011) <br>"total:" 0.09 km/yr (41%/21%/39%) <br>"per capita:" 65.77 m/yr (2005) Current issues: deforestation, desertification, prevalence of water-borne diseases, drought (rainfall has dropped by 30% in the last 30 years) Environment - party to international agreements on: This is a list of the extreme points of the Gambia, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location. Geography of the Gambia The Gambia is a very small and narrow country with the border based