Jerboa
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JERBOA, properly the name of an Arabian and North African jumping rodent mammal, Jaculus aegyptius (also known as Jaculus, or Dipus, jaculus) typifying the family Jaculidae (or Dipodidae), ...
Jerboas
Desert animals have to be able to cope with very harsh conditions. There are both hot and cold deserts around the world.
Jerboa
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
(jrb´), name for the small, jumping rodents of the family Dipodidae, found in arid parts of Asia, N Africa, and SE Europe.
Jerboa Is a small, jumping rodent found in North Africa and Asia, and southeast Europe. Jerboas have longer hind legs , for which they move somewhat like a kangaroo leaps , and has short front legs used only to grasp food .
Jerboas live in burrows in sandy areas, feeding at night on seeds, some vegetation and insects which they find by smell. Their hind feet are very large, and the bones are fused for extra strength.
Jerboas are exclusively jumping animals ( saltatorial). They have hind limbs that are at least four times as long as their front legs, and the foot bones are often fused into a single long cannon bone, ...
Family Dipodidae: jerboas and jumping mice
Superfamily Muroidea
Family Calomyscidae: mouse-like hamsters
Family Cricetidae: hamsters, New World rats and mice, voles
Family Muridae: true mice and rats, gerbils, spiny mice, crested rat ...
Jumping Mice and Jerboas - Family Dipodidae
Meadow Jumping Mouse Zapus hudsonius. Poorly known. Populations may be declining, but no recent surveys. Found primarily in Piedmont region of northeastern Alabama.
Vinogradov's jerboa (Allactaga vinogradovi)
New Holland mouse (Pseudomys novaehollandiae)
Anderson's gerbil (Gerbillus andersoni)
Bushy-tailed jird (Sekeetamys calurus)
Lesser Egyptian gerbil (Gerbillus gerbillus) ...
Wild: small mammals (rats, mice jerboas, moles); eggs when other food not available
Zoo: mice
habitat/range
grasslands; savanna; sandy open woodlands; adjacent rocky foothills; Kenya south to Southern Africa, west to Angola ...
gliding "flying" squirrels, from aquatic capybaras and muskrats to desert specialists such as kangaroo rats and jerboas, and from solitary organisms such as porcupines to highly social organisms living in extensive colonies, ...
Some of their favorite prey are small rodents such as gerbils, jerboas, and hamsters. The cats are excellent diggers, so they can go after the little critters by digging into their underground burrows.
Suborder: Castorimorpha (beavers, gophers, kangaroo rats, pocket mice, and relatives)
Suborder: Hystricomorpha (hystricognath rodents)
Suborder: Myomorpha (mice, rats, gerbils, jerboas, and relatives) ...
 See also: Kangaroo, Burro, Rat, Mouse, Kangaroo Rat
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