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byteofsoup · 1 year

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#jerboa #jerboas #none of these pictures are kangaroo rats i swear #most of them are from inaturalist sightings in asia. i would be very amused if someone found a kangaroo rat in mongolia

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rslashrats · 2 years

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me looking for a crumb or perhaps even a nibble after my banishment to the shadow realm

#jerboas #spongebob

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snototter · 8 months

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A small five-toed jerboa (Scarturus elater) in Kurchumskiy, Kazakhstan

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#small five toed jerboa #jerboas #rodents #scarturus elater #scarturus #dipodidae #rodentia #mammalia #chordata #wildlife: kazakhstan #wildlife: asia

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antiqueanimals · 2 years

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Bible Plants and Animals: vol. 1. Mammals. Written and illustrated by Harry Baerg. 1989.

#rodents #voles #rats #black rats #jerboas #harvest mice #spiny-backed mice #dormice #gerbils #hamsters #Harry Baerg

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hyacinthuuss · 3 months

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Jerboas

#jerboas

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thatsbelievable · 1 year

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#Three Ways to Convince Pete That You are On His Side #Also Pete is a Jerboa #jerboa #jerboas #jackals #owls

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dougdimmadodo · 1 year

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Hairy-Footed Jerboa (Dipus sagitta)

Family: Jerboa Family (Dipodidae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

Like other species in the jerboa family, the Hairy-Footed Jerboa is bipedal - it utilizes its extremely long and surprisingly powerful hind legs to bound across sand at speeds of over 18mph, while its dramatically shorter front legs are used for digging and to allow it to bring its head to the ground when foraging. Found in sandy regions of China, Mongolia, Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, members of this species spend the day sheltering from heat and predators in a burrow, and emerge at night to feed on grasses, seeds, roots and small insects. Each Hairy-Footed Jerboa claims a relatively large territory in which it lives alone or occasionally in pairs, and within each territory there will be several shallow burrows used as emergency shelters if a predator should ambush the jerboa while it is feeding and a single larger burrow with two exits (one of which can be used to escape the burrow if a predator enters through the other), a main chamber for sleeping in and several smaller chambers used for storing food. A single female Hairy-Footed Jerboa will give birth to several litters in a single year (typically during the spring and early summer and then again in the late summer and early autumn/fall), and each newborn jerboa will be independent and fully mature at only around 3 months of age. This species is one of several desert-dwelling rodent species known to have colonized the Aralkum Desert (the world’s youngest desert, which was accidentally created in the 1960s when massive irrigation work carried out by the Soviet Union caused vast areas of the Aral Sea to dry up, turning the exposed seabed into a desert), and due to the newfound abundance of rodents several species of foxes, polecats and wildcats have come to settle in the area.

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Image Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/43878-Dipus-sagitta

#Hariy-Footed Jerboa #northern three-toed jerboa #jerboa #jerboas #rodent #rodents #animal #animals #zoology #biology #mammalogy #rodentology #wildlife #asian wildlife #desert wildlife #dipodidae

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aquamarlne · 10 months

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Jerboas are so cute :3

#jerboa #jerboas #so goofy #silly lil thing #silly little guy

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uncharismatic-fauna · 2 years

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Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

While they might not clear buildings in a single leap, four-toed jerboas can jump pretty far! They are only about 20cm long, but when threatened these rodents can make leaps of up to 3 m at a time-- that’s 15 times their body length!