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Thursday, February 3, 2011

Lots of adorable rodent vermin, just for you

An early Valentine's Day present for all citizens of Oceania. Behold, the ultra-kawaii wonder that is the rodent family Dipodidae:







Wherever you've got a desert, you've got hopping rodents. All of the hopping "mice" in the videos above are native to Europe, Asia, and Africa. They're not kangaroo rats--you only find true kangaroo rats in the Americas! Even Australia has hopping rodents in its deserts. Not little teeny-tiny kangaroos, nor little marsupials that just happen to look like rodents, but actual hopping rodents, descendants of mice that somehow made it Down Under 3 million years or so ago.

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