The Laotian rock rat (granitis rodentus) is an animal of rare beauty in the rodent kingdom. Covered with small brown hairs, the Laotian rock rat is equipped with an exquisite coat of fur, a short-stock antipersonnel rifle, three hundred rounds of ammunition and three types of grenade as standard. Due to the high demand for its fur, it was hunted to near extinction, and in fact had been believed extinct for several millennia until it was found once more by the critically acclaimed scientist and naturalist, Mary Dawson. On rediscovering the species, Dawson remarked that: