What is a jerboa?
There are about 25 jerboa species, 22 of them in Asia. They are classified: • Kingdom: Animalia • Phylum: Chordata • Class: Mammalia • Order: Rodentia • Sudorder: Sciurognathi • Family: Dipodidae • Subfamily: Dipodinae • Genus: Jaculus A Jerboa is a rat-like mammal that lives in the deserts of Africa, Asia, and South-East Europe. It is similar to the kangaroo rat (Although completely unrelated) in that it has large hind legs that it can use to leap faster than a person can run, and a single leap may carry it more than 6 ft (1.8 m) and 2.25m high. The hind legs are approximately four times longer than its fore arms that are positioned near the head and used for burrowing and eating. It body is approximately 6 inches long, but its tail is approximately. another 8 inches. Its colour is a tawny yellow, something like that of dried lemon-peel. Its fur is very smooth and soft; its eyes are full and round, and its head is much like that of a young rabbit. When it eats, it sits and holds its f
