jeroboam
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To figure out how they should operate, Gan looks to animals such as horses and tiny hopping rodents called jerboas.
From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2023
The desert much is reddish in colour, and comes alive at night with various insects, lizards and jerboas hunting.
From The Guardian • Mar. 8, 2018
They have elongated hind-limbs and long hairy tails; and progress by leaps, in the same manner as jerboas, from which they differ in having five hind-toes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various
Of these the commonest at the present day are porcupines, badgers, otters, rats, mice, and jerboas.
No living creature moved on the dumb, swooning earth, but tiny jerboas scuttling through the parched bushes, or lizards vanishing in the clefts of the rock.
From The Blue Flower by Van Dyke, Henry
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