Great Jerboa
| Great Jerboa | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Dipodidae |
| Genus: | Allactaga |
| Subgenus: | Allactaga |
| Species: | A. major |
| Binomial name | |
| Allactaga major (Kerr, 1792) |
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The Great Jerboa (Allactaga major) is a species of rodent in the Dipodidae family. It is found in Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. It mainly lives in deserts. The Great Jerboa lives in many desert biomes around the world.
The Great jerboa is the biggest of all species of jerboa[2] The length of it's body is 180 mm and its tail is 260 mm[3] The Great Jerboa prefers ground that is made up of clay[4] This type of Jerboa likes to eat the bulbs of plants.[5] The plant bulbs it most commonly eats are the bulbs of Gagea [6] To get to the bulbs the Great Jerboa uses its teeth. This allows it to dig out the bulb of the Gagea[7] Other foods this animal will eat, but not as commonly as Gagea are grains and bark[8] It is common for several Great Jerboa to hibernate together in one nest[9]
[edit] References
- ^ Tsytsulina, K., Formozov, N., Zagorodnyuk, I. & Sheftel, B. (2008). Allactaga major. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 11 February 2009.
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=OsPBXSNL8ZkC&pg=PA202&dq=great+jerboa&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ja0DT7WiBoTl0QGxr4GQAg&ved=0CE4Q6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=great%20jerboa&f=false
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- Holden, M. E. and G. G. Musser. 2005. Family Dipodidae. Pp. 871-893 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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