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kangaroo rats: a nocturnal rodent species native to North America, known for their distinctive kangaroo-like hopping and long tails, often found in arid desert regions and grasslands
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Tipton kangaroo rats eat mainly seeds.
Another nocturnal adaptation can be seen in kangaroo rats.
Kangaroo rats are physiologically adapted to arid environments.
The most common desert rats in the wild are the kangaroo rats.
Kangaroo rats have a promiscuous mating system.
The incisors are smaller and less prominent than those of other kangaroo rats.
Kangaroo rats inhabit a variety of desert niches.
Beaudoin provided identifications of seeds collected by kangaroo rats and useful climate information.
Most kangaroo rats are exclusively nocturnal.
The most distinctive feature of the kangaroo rats is their very long hind legs.
Kangaroo rats drum their feet.
The periodicity of daily activity and its seasonal changes in freeranging and captive kangaroo rats.
Kangaroo rats are surrounded by enemies.
The Dulzura and Agile Kangaroo rats are closely related.
And kangaroo rats are one of their favorite foods.

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Giant kangaroo rat - the largest of all kangaroo rats.
Kangaroo rats are extremely sensitive to vibrations.
When on foraging trips, kangaroo rats hoard the seeds that they find.
Kangaroo rats can survive longer than giraffes.
Cheek pouches are used to carry grain to the burrow, where kangaroo rats hibernate.
Kangaroo rats have well developed hind legs.
It belongs to the family Heteromyidae, kangaroo rats and mice.
Some kangaroo rats also eat green vegetation and insects.
Mammals are usually small, like the kangaroo rats of North American deserts.
Kangaroo rats must harvest as much seed as possible in as little time as possible.
He is a member of the Alberta Recovery Team for Ord 's kangaroo rats.
Recently weaned kangaroo rats move into new areas not occupied by adults.
Instead of walking, some bipeds hop, such as kangaroos and kangaroo rats.
Kangaroo rats and pocket mice form a part of the diet of many predatory creatures.
Desert cottontails, jackrabbits, and Merriam 's kangaroo rats come out at night.
The tails of kangaroo rats are longer than both their bodies and their heads.
Male kangaroo rats are generally more aggressive than females and are more dominant over them.
Banner-tailed kangaroo rats generally live in grasslands and scrublands.
In the kangaroo rats they are unrooted but in the pocket mice they have roots.
Desert cottontails, kangaroo rats and mule deer are commonly seen by visitors.
Kangaroo rats have many anti-predator strategies.
Snakes - Kangaroo rats spiders.
Kangaroo rats drink little water, having adapted to minimal water loss.
Merriam 's kangaroo rats live in hot and dry areas and so must conserve water.
Kangaroo rats are nocturnal, and they prefer staying in their burrows during the day.
Environments of kangaroo rats ( Dipodomys ) and effects of environmental change on populations in southern Nevada.
Stephens ' kangaroo rats have been shown to have a keystone like effect on their sounding environment.
Canadian Ord 's kangaroo rats exist in uncharacteristically cold and wet conditions for the genus.

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