jerboa

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(12 / 10 / 2007) Extraordinary footage of the endangered long-eared jerboa was taken by scientists from the EDGE; this is the first time the jerboa, a hopping rodent that sports massive ears, has ever been caught on film.

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  1. noun Any of various small nocturnal leaping rodents of the family Dipodidae of Asia and northern Africa, having long hind legs and a long tufted tail.

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  1. Medieval Latin jerbōa, from Arabic jarbū'.

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  1. Sometimes written gerbo, gerboa, gerbua (see also gerbil); from Arabic yarbū, the flesh of the back and loins, an oblique descending muscle, and hence the jerboa, in reference to the strong muscles of its hind legs.
 

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/ˈdʒərbiə/
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