hopping mouse
notomys latin

Fawn hopping mice live in small family groups of two to four individuals.

The hopping mouse was the latest triumph of the man who could tame anything.

It is also commonly known as the broad-cheeked hopping mouse.

Half of the hopping mouse species have become extinct since European colonisation.

The tail of the species is long and has the characteristic hopping mouse brush at the tip.

The dusky hopping mouse has four pads on its soles.

Beside it a big hopping mouse in a gorgeous red and blue velvet coat played yet another pipe.

The long-tailed hopping mouse was discovered in 1843 by John Gilbert.

It was not until the 1890s that the long-tailed hopping mouse was considered endangered.

A hopping mouse's primary diet is seeds.

It was less a pest to humans than other hopping mice, although it would eat raisins.

The long-tailed hopping mouse's habitat was in inland Australia.

The dusky hopping mouse is classified as vulnerable.

The last known report of a live long-tailed hopping mouse was in 1901, when a captive individual died at an Adelaide scientific lab.

A population of the endangered Dusky Hopping Mouse lives in the desert.

Birds are like hopping mice.

The spinifex hopping mouse is widespread and although the population fluctuates considerably, is not considered at risk.

A hopping mouse is any of about ten different Australian native mice in the genus Notomys.

The dunes extend up to 3 km inland and form a habitat for the spinifex hopping mouse.

The diet of the long-tailed hopping mouse consisted of fruits, grain, and plants.

The big-eared hopping mouse was a small, rat-sized animal resembling a tiny kangaroo.

The hopping mouse was probably the first Australian mammal to succumb to European settlers.

As with other hopping mice, they do not need to drink, though they can metabolise highly saline water if it is available.

The extinct short-tailed hopping mouse (Notomys amplus) was the largest species at around 100 g.

The great hopping mouse (Notomys robustus) is extinct.

A hopping mouse is any of about ten different Australian native mice in the genus Notomys.

A zygomatic spine is developed in some Australian genera, including Notomys and some Pseudomys.

The northern hopping mouse, souris sauteuse, or ratones saltadores de Australia (Notomys aquilo) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.

In some Muridae the hallux is clawless and fully opposable, including arboreal species such as Hapalomys, Chiropodomys, Vandeleuria, and Chiromyscus; and saltatorial, bipedal species such as Notomys and possibly some Gerbillinae.

The Short-tailed Hopping Mouse (Notomys amplus) is an extinct species of mouse from open stony (gibber) plains with desert grasses, low shrubs and sand ridges in the area around Charlotte Waters, near Alice Springs in Central Australia.