Dave Watts / Fawn footed melomys (Melomys cervinipes) North Queensland, Australia

Dave Watts / Fawn footed melomys (Melomys cervinipes) North Queensland, Australia

Steven David Miller / Fawn footed melomy {Melomys cervinipes} captive, drinking from cup, native to Cape tribulation, Queensland, Australia

Jiri Lochman / Grassland melomys (Melomys burtoni) feeding, Mitchell Plateau, Western Australia.

Jiri Lochman / Grassland melomys / Grassland mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys burtoni) portrait, Mitchell Plateau, Kimberley, Western Australia.

Jiri Lochman / Fawn-footed melomys (Melomys cervinipes) climbing on a tree branch at night, Bunya Mountains National Park, south-eastern Queensland, Australia.

Jiri Lochman / Cape York melomys (Melomys capensis) feeding on rainforest fruit. This is a studio photograph of a temporarily captured, wild animal photographed at the capture site on Cape York Peninsula, Far North...

Jiri Lochman / Cape York melomys (Melomys capensis) feeding on rainforest fruit. This is a studio photograph of a temporarily captured, wild animal photographed at the capture site on Cape York Peninsula, Far North...

Jiri Lochman / Cape York melomys (Melomys capensis) on tree branch. This is a studio photograph of a temporarily captured, wild animal photographed at the capture site on Cape York Peninsula, Far North Queensland, A...

Jiri Lochman / Grassland melomys (Melomys burtoni) sitting on branch, Port Warrender, Western Australia.

Bruce Thomson / Bramble cay melomys (Melomys rubicola), a small rodent that was endemic to a small coral cay in the Torres Strait. A few years ago, the sea level rose enough to flood the cay at high tide and so this...

Bruce Thomson / Fawn footed melomys (Melomys cervinipes) holding blade of grass in paws, foraging at roadside in rainforest, Paluma Range, Queensland, Australia.