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Rabbits may seem like simply cute and cuddly creatures, but their fur actually serves particular purposes. For one thing, the color of a rabbit's fur helps it tocamouflage, or blend in, with its surroundings. For example, arctic rabbits are white to blend in with the snow, but they chang...
Kangaroo mouse, (genus Microdipodops), either of two species of leaping bipedal rodents found only in certain deserts of the western United States. They have large ears and a large head with fur-lined external cheek pouches. The forelimbs are short, but
Asian tree mouse, (subfamily Platacanthomyinae), any of three species of small rodents found only in a few tropical forests of India and continental Southeast Asia. The Malabar spiny tree mouse (Platacanthomys lasiurus) lives only in the old-growth rainf
Maned rat, (Lophiomys imhausi), a long-haired and bushy-tailed East African rodent that resembles a porcupine and is named for its mane of long, coarse black-and-white-banded hairs that begins at the top of the head and extends beyond the base of the tai