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  2. Kangaroo mouse - Wikipedia

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    The dark kangaroo mouse is also known to feed occasionally on insects and carrion. The mouse rarely drinks water, instead deriving it metabolically from the foods it eats. The kangaroo mouse collects food and maintains large caches in their burrows, which are excavated to a length of between 3 and 8 feet (1 to 2.5 meters). The burrow, the ...

  3. Heteromyidae - Wikipedia

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    Heteromyidae is a family of rodents consisting of kangaroo rats, kangaroo mice, pocket mice and spiny pocket mice.Most heteromyids live in complex burrows within the deserts and grasslands of western North America, though species within the genus Heteromys are also found in forests and their range extends as far south as northern South America.

  4. Kangaroo rat - Wikipedia

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    Kangaroo rats, small mostly nocturnal rodents of genus Dipodomys, are native to arid areas of western North America.The common name derives from their bipedal form. They hop in a manner similar to the much larger kangaroo, but developed this mode of locomotion independently, like several other clades of rodents (e.g., dipodids and hopping mice).

  5. Dipodomyinae - Wikipedia

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    Dipodomyinae is a subfamily of heteromyid rodents, the kangaroo rats and mice. Dipodomyines, as implied by both their common and scientific names, are bipedal ; they also jump exceptionally well. Kangaroo rats and mice are native to desert and semidesert ecosystems of western North America from southern Canada to central Mexico .

  6. What the elusive kangaroo rat can tell researchers about the ...

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    The Santa Cruz kangaroo rat, more closely related to chipmunks and gophers than kangaroos or rats, had not been spotted in the area since the 1940s. The Santa Cruz kangaroo rat, more closely ...

  7. Rat - Wikipedia

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    Other rat genera include Neotoma (pack rats), Bandicota (bandicoot rats) and Dipodomys (kangaroo rats). Rats are typically distinguished from mice by their size. Usually the common name of a large muroid rodent will include the word "rat", while a smaller muroid's name will include "mouse". The common terms rat and mouse are not taxonomically ...

  8. Phillips's kangaroo rat - Wikipedia

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    It appears these kangaroo rats sometimes share their burrows with the silky pocket mouse (Perognathus flavus). [5] Little is known of the breeding habits of this kangaroo rat, but females containing two or three embryos were found in June and October, and, when attempts were made to trap the animal, juveniles were caught in seven months of the ...

  9. Jerboa - Wikipedia

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    Kangaroo rat and kangaroo mouse – similar heteromyid rodents native to North America; an example of convergence Kultarr – a marsupial with a similar body plan and coloration; another example of convergence; they use quadrupedal locomotion, but their large aerial phases cause them to be confused with hopping mice