Please, do not feed this peanut butter and beaked butter with tweezers !!!

Scientists have named two new species of pinched beaked rats that are not gifted for peanut butter. Please offer them earthworms instead, thank you very much.

The creatures are "docile" and have long noses, and they jump into the Philippine mountains in search of earthworms – the favorite food of rats. It seems that different species of rats are isolated from each other in the upper part of the individual mountains of the region, where the animals proliferate in surprisingly high numbers. One of the species found is named Rhynchomys lab (more or less Greek for "Mount Labo Muzzle Mouse"), and the other is named Rhynchomys Mingan ("Muzzle mouse of Mingan Mountain").

"They are pretty weird," Eric Rickart, curator of the Utah Natural History Museum and lead author of the new descriptions, said in a statement. "They are jumping on their strong hind legs and large hind legs, almost like little kangaroos, with a long, thin, delicate muzzle and almost no chewing teeth." [Rats and Lizards and Monkeys, Oh My! 9 Islands Ruled by Animals]

Unfortunately, there do not appear to be any publicly available photos or videos illustrating live examples of rats, perhaps in part because researchers have only recently discovered how to trap them.

In the past, researchers conducted mammal surveys in the area with bait traps containing peanut butter, a high-calorie food that many fur creatures enjoy. But the beaked-leaping rats never seemed interested.

Finally, we fell into a trap, but it still did not affect the peanut butter. When the researchers, not knowing what the animal preferred, offered him a worm alive and wriggling, Rickart said, the rat "licked like a kid eating spaghetti" .

Thus, researchers began trapping their traps with live worms, and scientists found that pinch-nosed rats were quite common in high mountain areas (a region recently learned that scientists are very dense in animals). This provided a scientific description of the rats, published June 6 in the Journal of Mammalogy.

"They are very docile, very cute," Larry Heaney, curator at the Field Museum in Chicago and co-author of the study, said in a statement. "Their fur is short and very dense, like a stuffed toy, they make small tracks through the forest and patrol day and night in these small tracks in search of earthworms."

Originally published on Science live.