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White-footed Rabbit-rat
Conilurus albipes
Mammalstrong against birds, fungi
Extinct · Mythic
Leader · Pack
Counts as two mammals: while active, it hits 7 harder (14 with another mammal in play).
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Wikapialpha version
White-footed Rabbit-rat
Conilurus albipes
Mammalstrong against birds, fungi
Extinct · Mythic
Counts as two mammals: while active, it hits 7 harder (14 with another mammal in play).
Conilurus albipes
Photo: John Gould (original photo) · public domain (licence text) · cropped
Strong against: it deals 20% more damage to them. Weak against: these types deal 20% more damage to it.
The white-footed rabbit rat (Conilurus albipes) is an extinct species of rodent, which was originally found in woodlands from Adelaide to Sydney, but became restricted to south-eastern Australia. It was kitten-sized and was one of Australia's largest native rodents. It was nocturnal and lived among trees. It made nests filled with leaves and possibly grass in the limbs of hollow eucalyptus trees. The mother carried her young attached to her teats. In a letter to John Gould, then Governor of South Australia Sir George Grey said that he removed a baby from a teat of its dead mother. The baby clung tightly to Gould's glove.
Sydney natives called it 'gnar-ruck' which translates as 'rabbit-biscuit'. It was a problem in the settlers' stores at about 1788. The last specimen was recorded at about 1845, but some were reported in 1856–57 and perhaps in the 1930s. Rats may have spread diseases or competed for food with the white-footed rabbit rat. Cats may have been predators, while the demise of Aboriginal firestick farming, which maintained woodland, may have made the rabbit rat extinct.
Joyce and McCann, in Burke & Wills - The Scientific Legacy of the Victorian Exploring Expedition (CSIRO Publishing, 2012) state (p138 et seq) that the animal was seen by Beckler at camp 53 in April 1861, in the vicinity of the Bulloo River system. Additionally, the authors state that the relief party of 1862, which included Howitt, collected a specimen south of Coopers Creek.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article White-footed rabbit rat, by its authors, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Extinct: that’s what makes this card Mythic.
Every Mythic card has 160 points, shared between HP, ATK and DEF:
How they’re shared out:
DEF 61