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Water-rat Exhibit

Erm... are they confusing Water Rats with Brown Rats? Why is their enclosure designed as a washroom?
 
@Chlidonias The original idea by the director, back when this was being buildt was, that nature is getting bag an abandoned farm. Since there was already a ton unneccessary stuff removed from exhibits and now, with new director, these exhibits got repainted to look more "natural"
 
Do the water rats have more water than just that little bowl? In the wild they live a lot like otters and a small pot of water is completely unacceptable.

On another note, has the name rakali taken off in other countries yet? In Australia they're still commonly referred to as water rats but I've noticed the use of rakali to be picking up.
 
@PAT The bowl they have now is a bit bigger than the one pictured, but it is probably still not what would you expect, but so are all setups for them here in Czechia - they have water bowl (cca 5 - 10l) available and that is it.

About rakali as a name, in Czech republic we already have two Czech names for them and the native one is mentioned just as a sort of fun fact. The same goes for other marsupials as well.
 

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