Talk:Maclear's rat

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"Introduced black rats infected the Maclear's Rats with a disease, so they often crawled about during the day." This sounds super interesting, so some details would be really cool. The disease caused them to move about during the daytime? 160.93.169.173 (talk) 16:01, 3 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Something is wrong here. If you look at the track of the Challenger expedition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_expedition) it didn't go to Christmas Island or even particularly close. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bestendeavors (talk • contribs) 17:42, 6 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]