Mizoram, the land where bamboo flourishes, the rats rampage, and the giant rat-like creatures do God knows what

Giant rat-like creatures are prowling Mizoram, India. Mizoram is also the home of one of the Lost Tribes of Israel.* The first link notes scientists expect a plague of normal rats to rampage across Mizoram next year when the bamboo flowers again for the first time in 48 years. Strange place, Mizoram.

*For some reason these photos of the Mizoram Jews in India reminds me of Indians in the Americas.

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  1. Jerusha6/7/06 7:31 AM

    Interesting. 'Giant rat-like creatures'?? I was born and bred in Mizoram, and that's the first time I've heard of them...

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