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Kangaroo Rat — printable fact sheet
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Kangaroo Rat
Dipodomys spp.
The kangaroo rat never drinks. It lives in the deserts of North America and can complete an entire life without a sip of water, extracting everything it needs from dry seeds — partly as the trace of moisture inside them, and mostly as metabolic water, produced as a by-product wh…
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- Kangaroo rats can live their entire lives without ever drinking liquid water, getting all the moisture they need from seeds and metabolic processes.
- It never drinks water in its life, taking all it needs from dry seeds and from water its own cells generate while burning them. Its nose reclaims moisture from its own exhaled breath before it escapes. Its kidneys concentrate urine almost to a paste. It senses a striking rattlesnake through ground vibration and leaps vertically clear of it.
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