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Long-eared Jerboa
Euchoreutes naso
Euchoreutes naso of the deserts of Mongolia and northwestern China has ears that are roughly a third longer than its head - the largest ear-to-body ratio of any mammal - mounted on a body the size of a golf ball with a tail nearly twice the body's length and hind legs like a min…
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- Despite looking mouse-like, the long-eared jerboa is more closely related to gerbils than to mice or rats.
- Its Latin name means "good dancer with a nose", a reference to the pig-like snout and the bounding gait. Unlike most jerboas it is a specialist insect-eater rather than a seed-eater, which is unusual for a desert rodent. The 2007 ZSL footage was the first film of the species in the wild and remains one of the few sequences of it in existence.
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