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What is a jerboa?

What is a jerboa? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of a number of species comprising most of the family Dipodidae, native to the deserts of Asia and northern Africa, being a small, jumping rodent with a long tufted tail, very small forefeet and very long hind legs.
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A double parallel to this modification is seen in the jerboa among the ungulates, and in the kangaroo among the marsupials.
Macalister says that the muscle is especially developed in leaping animals such as the kangaroo, jerboa, macrocelides.
Some commentators on the Old Testament translate the word Akbar as jerboa.
Here, long-eared hedgehog, northern three-toed jerboa, gray hamster, and corsac fox are among the more common mammal residents.
The animal suggests a large jerboa in appearance on account of its jumping habits, the long hind-limbs, and the long tail.
Still other families of the Myomorpha include the dormouse, jumping mouse, and jerboa.

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