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	Wikipedia: Hopping mouse
		The Fawn Hopping Mouse (Notomys cervinus) is found on the sparsely vegetated arid gibber plains and claypans of the Lake Eyre Basin.
		The Darling Downs Hopping Mouse (Notomys mordax) is almost certainly extinct and is known only from a single skull collected somewhere on the Darling Downs of south-east Queensland in the 1840s, apparently from a creature similar to Mitchell's Hopping-mouse.
		It is notable that very few of the clay-living hopping mice have survived European settlement, sand dunes apparently providing a more secure refuge from competitors and predators.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/h/ho/hopping_mouse.html (455 words)

	mouse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		mice look like house mice, but are smaller and have more hair on their tails.
		Harvest mice are excellent climbers and use the plant stems as ladders to reach their nests.
		Grasshopper mice are most active at night, when they come out of their burrows to hunt.
	www.creighton.k12.az.us /montevista/animals/mouse.htm (1995 words)

	Reference Library - RedOrbit
		The name derives from their bipedal form (they hop like tiny kangaroos) but the resemblance is purely visual: kangaroo rats and kangaroos are not related, other than in that both groups are mammals.
		Despite sharing so many characteristics with jerboas and hopping mice, the three groups are not closely related to one another: the similarities are the result of convergent evolution.
		Unlike the jerboas and hopping mice, but like their close relatives the pocket mice, kangaroo rats have large cheek pouches that open on either side of the mouth and extend back to the shoulders.
	www.redorbit.com /education/reference_library?article_id=626 (454 words)

	Energetic cost of locomotion in Australian hopping mice
		THE mode of locomotion of the hopping mouse can be compared with that of the kangaroo moving bipedally at speed.
		Because the latter cannot be monitored due to technical difficulties, I have used the hopping mouse in a study of the energetics of this type of locomotion at speeds of 0.5−7 km h
		The result of this pattern was that the costs of hopping in Notomys cervinus were markedly below those predicted for a quadruped.
	www.nature.com /nature/journal/v259/n5541/abs/259305a0.html (215 words)

	Dusky Hopping Mouse
		The Dusky Hopping Mouse (Notomys fuscus) is an Australian native rodent specialised for the deep desert.
		Like all hopping mice it has strong front teeth, a long tail, dark eyes, big ears, well-developed haunches and very long, narrow hind feet.
		The reasons for the decline of the Dusky Hopping Mouse are not fully understood, but are assumed to be competition for food with introduced species, particularly cattle and rabbits, and predation by introduced cats and foxes[?].
	www.fastload.org /du/Dusky_Hopping_Mouse.html (302 words)

	Vail Daily News for Vail and Beaver Creek Colorado - Columnists
		Mice convert plants that are carbohydrates to protein.
		Mice propel themselves with their powerful hind legs, and land on their front legs.
		It should be noted that mice spend much of their time inside the snow pack feeding on seeds, bark and vegetation.
	www.vaildaily.com /article/20051118/COLUMS/111180025 (571 words)

	Jerboa
		Their ability to hop is presumed to be an adaptation to help them escape from predators, and perhaps to assist with the longer journeys a desert-living animal must make to find food.
		It is interesting to note that although jerboas are not closely related to the hopping mice of Australia or the kangaroo rats of North America, all three groups have evolved a similar set of adaptations to life in the deep desert.
		Found in both the sandy and stony deserts of north Africa, Arabia and Iran, this small creature aestivates (a form of hibernation) during the hottest summer months, and has the ability to leap a full metre to escape a predator.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/je/Jerboa.html (417 words)

	Heteromyidae: Kangaroo Rats & Pocket Mice
		Despite their names, they are neither rats nor mice; and in spite of their mouse-like appearance, they are not closely related to any other species of North American rodent.
		Kangaroo rats and pocket mice are all nocturnal, burrowing animals with external fur-lined cheek pouches for storing and transporting the seeds that are their primary food.
		The pocket mice are also primarily granivorous (seed eating), most often eating mesquite beans and the seeds of grasses, creosote bushes, and weeds.
	www.desertmuseum.org /books/nhsd_heteromyidae.html?print=y (1239 words)

	JAX®Mice Database - 000938 B6 x STOCK Epha4<rb>/J
		Progeny testing is required to identify the genotype of mice of this strain, as a genotyping assay is not available.
		The progeny testing cost is in addition to the recovery cost and is based on the number of boxes used and the time taken to produce the mice identified as carrying the mutation.
		To ensure that JAX® Mice will meet the needs of individual research projects or when requesting a strain that is new to your research, we suggest ordering and performing tests on a small number of mice to determine suitability for your particular project.
	jaxmice.jax.org /strain/000938.html (745 words)

	Desert Explorer!
		There are all sorts of cute mice and rats living in the deserts of the world.
		If they come out in the hot day bouncing and hopping like that, their energy would be used up pretty soon.
		Although they are as small as mice, they are so powerful that they can clear 8 feet of hot sand by just brushing their long tail, more(in proportion to size) than the large kangaroos can do in Australia!
	library.thinkquest.org /28855/mice.html (393 words)

	Mice
		Mice are probably the most well known rodents of all because they live almost everywhere in the world.
		Some kinds of mice are the North African striped grass mouse, house mouse, African climbing mouse, common door mouse, harvest mouse, striped field mouse, Australian hopping mouse, leaf-eared mouse, African house mouse, meadow jumping mouse, grass hopping mouse, and Mexican volcano mouse.
		Mice that live in the fields have these animals for enemies: kestrels, buzzards, owls, other mice, weasels, foxes, and humans.
	library.thinkquest.org /3882/mice.html (672 words)

	Nature Feature - Red Kangaroo
		Kangaroos and their kin are characterised by powerful hindlimbs and long hind feet which are usually employed in a fast hopping gait.
		It is possible to imagine a kangaroo-like animal that could run on its hindlegs like an emu or a frill-necked lizard but the neuromuscular coordination of most kangaroos is such that the hindlegs must move together when used in terrestrial locomotion.
		No macropodid has a prehensile tail, this structure serving as a balancing counter-weight when an animal is hopping, as a prop when standing upright and as a fifth limb in slow locomotion.
	www.australianstamp.com /Coin-web/feature/nature/redkang.htm (2267 words)

	Notomys alexis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The Australian hopping mouse lives in the deserts and semi-deserts of the Australian midlands.
		They usually walk on all four, which results in a cute hopping movement because of the length difference between the front and hind legs.
		The mice do pollute their nest, so it has to be cleaned regularly.
	www.gerbil-info.com /html/notomys_alexis.htm (658 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for mice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The chief distinction between these animals and the variety of rodents called rats is in size: mice are usually smaller.
		Of mice and men: links between house mice and human disease help define rodent control as a health issue.(Rodent Management)
		As time goes by, mutant mice face problems.(long term research on mice with deficiencies of enzyme telomerase results in early onset of age disorders and cancer)(Brief Article)
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=mice&Offset=10 (408 words)

	Dark Kangaroo Mouse
		They are slightly smaller than kangaroo rats, but their hind feet are modified for hopping, kangaroo-like.
		Their tails are shorter than kangaroo rats but are thicker in the middle, which may provide support while hopping on their hind feet.
		They use bipedal locomotion hopping about on their hind limbs, but also walk on all fours.
	imnh.isu.edu /digitalatlas/bio/mammal/Rod/pcktmc/dkmo/dkmo.htm (311 words)

	Hopping mice do it differently: Mice with minute testes, misshapen sperm and thin, spiny penises may shed light on what ...
		Hopping mice do it differently: Mice with minute testes, misshapen sperm and thin, spiny penises may shed light on what makes most males the way they are - 10 June 1989 - New Scientist
		Hopping mice do it differently: Mice with minute testes, misshapen sperm and thin, spiny penises may shed light on what makes most males the way they are
		But what makes the hopping mice especially peculiar - and peculiarly interesting - is their strange reproductive anatomy.
	www.newscientist.com /article/mg12216685.500.html (326 words)

	! Australian Water Rat ! Tropical Rainforest, North Queensland, Australia
		Because of the large size of the family, the group is divided into many subfamilies, which are then further divided into tribes.
		However, some of our native rats and mice have suffered just as much as the marsupials since European settlement of the country, and several have gone extinct (Strahan 1998).
		It includes the sometimes quite large 'tree rats', the rare 'stick-nest' rats, the 'pebble-mound' mice, the cute 'hopping-mice', the water rat', and the melomys, amongst other interesting rodents.
	rainforest-australia.com /australian_water-rat.htm (1181 words)

	Logitech News > Logitech Unveils Two G-Series Laser Mice for Gamers, Combining Extreme Performance and Custom Tuning
		These new mice raise the bar for PC gaming by providing impressive specs, blazing speed, and a wide range of customization options.
		If the mouse encounters interference, Logitech´s intelligent frequency hopping enables the mouse to automatically jump to a channel where there is no interference.
		Only one is in use at a time, so the mouse weighs significantly less than other rechargeable mice currently on the market, and much less than mice that require two AA batteries.
	www.logitech.com /index.cfm/news/GB/EN,contentid=10813,crid=34 (1302 words)

	Fawn Hopping Mouse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Fawn Hopping Mouse (Notomys cervinus) is a rodent native to the central Australian desert.
		During the day, they shelter in burrows which are simpler and shallower than those of the sand-dwelling Dusky Hopping Mouse but nevertheless up to a metre deep with between one and three entrances.
		As with other hopping mice, they do not need to drink, though they can metabolise highly saline water if it is available.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fawn_Hopping_Mouse (350 words)

	Hopping & Slipping (Bioinformatics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Hopping typically has a "takeoff codon site" and a "landing codon site".
		Various researchers trying to create stable anti-sense cDNA in mRNA which is capable of restoring at least partial correction in 90% of Duchenne's muscular dystrophy by cancelling out the effect of frame error(s) induced by point mutation(s) in exons.
		It has worked in mice, corrections being observed in less than 24 hours, maybe it will such approaches will be able to help human beings.
	www.cybcon.com /~plasmid/Hopping.html (580 words)

	Dusky-hopping Mouse
		Dusky-hopping mice are classified as “vulnerable” with a known population of less than 10,000 animals.
		Three to five dusky-hopping mice will live in the same burrow that can be 1 meter underground; most burrows are equipped with an escape tunnel.
		Dusky-hopping mice are equipped with a throat pouch that is protected by a hairy lip.
	www.australianfauna.com /duskyhoppingmouse.php (351 words)

	ADW: Muridae: Information
		These subfamilies include the Leimacomyinae (groove-toothed forest mouse), the Deomyinae (spiny mice, brush furred mice, and link rat), the Gerbillinae (gerbils, jirds, and sand rats), the Murinae (Old World rats and mice), and the Otomyinae (vlei rats, karoo rats, and whistling rats).
		Some species of murids are indeed small--tiny African pygmy mice (Mus minutoides) have bodies less than 9 cm long and weigh in at under 5 grams--but some are much larger, like southern Luzon giant cloud rats (Phloeomys cumingi), which grow to over 48 cm long and weigh over 2 kg.
		There are murids that are specialized for hopping, climbing, swimming, and murids that are capable of all of these modes of locomotion.
	animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu /site/accounts/information/Muridae.html (2842 words)

	Hopping mouse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A hopping mouse or kangaroo rat is any of about ten different Australian native mice in the genus Notomys.
		The Long-tailed Hopping Mouse (Notomys longicaudatus)is an extinct species, which was widespread in the drier regions of southern and central Australia.
		It was similar to the Fawn Hopping Mouse of Central Australia but a little larger at around 55 g with a heavier build and longer feet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hopping_mouse (530 words)

	Spinifex Hopping Mouse -Australian Reptile Park Animals
		While the front legs are small, the hind pair are strong and muscular and provide tremendous propulsion enabling the mouse to rapidly escape danger with long hops.
		Spinifex hopping mice live in small social groups with several individuals often sharing a burrow system.
		Reproduction: Young spinifex hopping mice are able to breed at around three months of age and breeding will take place at any time provided food is in good supply.
	www.reptilepark.com.au /animals.asp?catID=2&ID=158 (304 words)

	News in Science - Fancy Fido the Quoll for a pet? - 16/06/1999
		These include hopping mice, which are already popular pets in South Australia.
		If current restrictions were eased, people in other states might also be able to enjoy the animals which could be kept in a dry fish tank filled with a little sand and some hollow logs.
		If a species like the Mitchell's hopping mouse - which is extinct in NSW and threatened elsewhere - took off there could be real spinoffs for conservation.
	www.abc.net.au /science/news/stories/s29269.htm (558 words)

	Long (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The long-tailed hopping mouse was one of the largest and most elegant of Australia’s native hopping rodents.
		It was also very widespread in the drier regions of southern and central Australia and, to judge from some early accounts, quite common in its preferred habitat.
		A small fragment of skull found in 1977 in a recent owl pellet—a regurgitated bolus of fur and bones—near The Granites in the Northern Territory suggests that it may have survived longer than historical collection records indicate.
	rainforestinfo.org.au /spp/Schouten/long.htm (137 words)

	Canku Ota - Jan. 27, 2001 - Legend of the Jumping Mouse
		Jumping mouse is a small animal that usually moves by hopping.
		North American jumping mice are in either of two genera, Zapus or Napaeozapus.
		The meadow jumping mouse is one of the most interesting of the mice found in North America.
	www.turtletrack.org /Issues01/Co01272001/CO_01272001_Mouse.htm (1546 words)

	Hopping mouse - BIRD
		The primary cause of the extinctions is probably predation from introduced foxes and cats, coupled with competition for food from introduced cattle and rabbits.
		The Big-eared Hopping Mouse (Notomys macrotis) was similar to the Fawn Hopping-mouse of Central Australia but a little larger at around 55 g with a heavier build and longer feet.
		The Darling Downs Hopping Mouse Notomys mordax is known from a single skull collected somewhere on the Darling Downs of south-east Queensland in 1946.
	www.bird.net.au /bird/index.php?title=Hopping_mice (381 words)

	Australian Animals and more detailed information about Australian Animals .
		Bear it in mind that "lakes" in Central Australia are normally dry, often for years on end: permanent surface water is very unusual.
		The remaining populations are concentrated in sandy habitats which have consolidated dunes and perennial vegetation and are close to lakes or drainage lines.
		Coloration varies but tends to be pale orange, sometimes with grey tinges, and white underneath.
	www.deregular.com /animals/australian-animals/Dusky-hopping-Mouse.php (256 words)

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