| 单词 | jerboa |
| 例句 | Thankfully, there are enough silly baby animals in Life Story to refocus your attention, such as the jerboa, which jumps at every noise its huge ears detect. Life Story: is this David Attenborough’s swan song? 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z Indeed, the best footage here is captured at night, from the slinkings of the bizarre horned viper to the evasive tactics of the lesser jerboa, a tiny rodent with kangaroo-like hind legs. TV highlights 22/02/2013 2013-02-22T07:00:05Z The desert much is reddish in colour, and comes alive at night with various insects, lizards and jerboas hunting. Great desert adventures: readers’ travel tips 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z To figure out how they should operate, Gan looks to animals such as horses and tiny hopping rodents called jerboas. Animals inspire scientists to solve problems that humans face 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z With its large ears and whiskered nose, you’d be forgiven for mistaking the jerboa for a mouse … at least from the stomach up. How the jerboa got its enormous feet 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z In her laboratory at UCSD, she and her colleagues study the evolution of the jerboa, a long-legged rodent with a jumping, bipedal gait, which diverged from the mouse lineage tens of millions of years ago. Gene Drives Shown to Work in Female Mice 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Here I’m going to talk briefly about one of my favourite rodent groups: the jerboas. For Rodent Week, the Gift of Jerboas 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z A type of hopping rodent called the jerboa, native to North Africa and Asia, also has a superlong tail. Nice Caboose: Animals With the Longest Tails This week I learned for the first time about the jerboa, a small mammal that’s like a mouse crossed with a kangaroo and a velociraptor. Week in Geek: Jump Around edition 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z Finally, the researchers used a series of so-called network analyses to try to pinpoint which genes might have outsize effects in shaping the jerboa’s feet. How the jerboa got its enormous feet 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Cooper and her colleagues are trying to find the unknown combination of genetic changes responsible for that evolutionary transformation by making lab mice carry incrementally more jerboa traits. Gene Drives Shown to Work in Female Mice 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z It involves the jumping mice and birch mice, some of which are not that similar to classic jerboas and are associated with forests and grasslands more than deserts. For Rodent Week, the Gift of Jerboas 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z It's Europe's smallest rodent - the world's smallest rodent is believed to be the pygmy jerboa. 7 questions on harvests 2013-09-18T01:51:12Z Either way, I think the jerboa is worth reflecting on. Week in Geek: Jump Around edition 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z The total picture painted by the jerboa network analysis is one that highlights how complex the developmental process is. How the jerboa got its enormous feet 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z A small, leaping Australian marsupial of the genus Bettongia; the jerboa kangaroo. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z They have elongated hind-limbs and long hairy tails; and progress by leaps, in the same manner as jerboas, from which they differ in having five hind-toes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z When they descend to the ground they sit upright, and move about by jumping with their hind-legs like jerboas. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z Unlike kangaroos, the jerboa lives in the deserts of Africa, Asia, and the Arabian Peninsula. Week in Geek: Jump Around edition 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z The team identified a gene called shox2, for example, that is expressed in the jerboa feet, but not in mouse feet. How the jerboa got its enormous feet 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z It was another step towards Saul’s recovery when his soul achieved the harmony of a quail and a jerboa. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Siebenk�s, again, was like a jerboa from morning till night. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z Then follows the tune by which he had charmed the “quails,” the “crickets,” and the “quick jerboa.” Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z "I do not know them all, but there are the mouse, the marmot, the squirrel, the hare, the beaver, the jerboa——" "The jerboa!" The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island 2011-01-03T03:01:03.473Z Other genes with different expression in the jerboa were ones that are ordinarily associated with turning off bone growth in mice. How the jerboa got its enormous feet 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Stanza vi., jerboa: a small jumping rodent animal, called also the jumping hare. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z The lion and the hunting leopard, which may be considered as in this epoch at least, Ethiopian types extend thus far, besides various species of jerboa and other desert-loving forms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Among smaller animals the jerboa and other descriptions of rat, and the wabar or cony are common; lizards and snakes are numerous, most of the latter being venomous. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" There are two or three varieties of hares, and a species of jerboa and several genera of mongooses. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" This type of “cutting the brakes” approach seems to be another key component of the jerboa’s huge hindlimbs, the team reports. How the jerboa got its enormous feet 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z I also saw the redoubtable blocus, an animal resembling a jerboa, or kangaroo, whose only trace of plant existence was a few rootlets growing out of its back. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar Now, the men who frequent them, and though their elbows touch, are as foreign to each other as is a jerboa to a polar bear. The Book of Khalid His stare, with his sharp nose, tiny chin, and trembling whiskers, gave him the look of a jerboa, one of those desert rats that Daoud had hunted with hawks in Palestine. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel In the leaping kangaroo and jerboa a shortening of the arms and lengthening of the legs appear. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution As I always regretted the untimely death of my pet jerboa, I thought these little rodents would fill his place, and prove amusing pets. Wild Nature Won By Kindness The jerboas or jumping mice are not only skilled athletes in the art of jumping, but they are gifted food conservers and producers as well. The Human Side of Animals This family contains a form of rodent similar to, yet more pronounced than, the jerboa rats, of which I have already treated. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Of these the commonest at the present day are porcupines, badgers, otters, rats, mice, and jerboas. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. But I have also seen them eat the big lizards of the desert and the jerboas—a sort of desert rat. Topsy-Turvy Land Arabia Pictured for Children Then the jerboa raises himself to his full height and playfully measures his cage by one bound from corner to corner. Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 The kanguroo, though it resembles the jerboa in the peculiarity of using only the hinder legs in progression, does not belong to that genus. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789) The unique specimen from the reedy country on the Murray of a very singular animal much resembling the jerboa or desert rat of Persia; also a rat-eared bat from the Lachlan. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 In their leaping powers they resemble the jerboa. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section F, G and H This is supposed to be the jerboa, an animal common in the East, about the size of a rat, and which only uses its hindlegs. Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time As the new-comer got on his feet again my hope gained new life, and now our jerboa is my delight. Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 The genera are, the porcupine, cavy, beaver, bat, marmot, squirrel, dormouse, jerboa, and hare. 5th. Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side Thus, in the kangaroos and jerboas, the tail forms, with the hind feet, a kind of tripod from which the animal makes its spring. The Book of Household Management A jerboa appeared with a ring in its ear. Moorish Literature Aha, poor little man!'—as a jerboa sprang up from a tuft of bushes at his feet—'I fear you must help to fill our soup-kettle in these hard times.' Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face If we notice the position of the mouth, far back on the under side of the head, we will understand that the jerboa could not take his food in any other way. Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 Whilst we were here encamped a little jerboa was chased by the dogs into a hole close to the drays; which, with four others, we succeeded in capturing, by digging for them. Expedition into Central Australia Last time I was there she used to let out six Egyptian jerboas in the drawing-room every evening after dinner, awfully jolly little beggars, like miniature kangaroos. The Rosary Why was your son metamorphosed into a jerboa? Moorish Literature And with a dexterous sweep of his long whip, the worthy bishop entangled the jerboas long legs, whisked him up to his saddle-bow, and delivered him to the groom and the game-bag. Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face Very little is known of his life when free; it being known only that the jerboas are widely spread over the whole of southern Africa, and are nocturnal burrowers of the steppes. Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 These wanderers of the desert had their bags full of jerboas which they had captured on the hills. Expedition into Central Australia No living creature moved on the dumb, swooning earth, but tiny jerboas scuttling through the parched bushes, or lizards vanishing in the clefts of the rock. The Blue Flower The man ran after it, killed it, hid the ring, made a fire, cooked the jerboa and ate it. Moorish Literature The hind legs are very strong, and when going at full speed the jerboa takes jumps that measure from eight to ten yards, according to the unanimous testimony of various witnesses. Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 One who knows anything about the structure of animals' bodies need not be told that the jerboa is a rodent. Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 There being then water, the country, at other times impenetrable, is then temporarily thrown open to them, and they traverse it in quest of the jerboa and other quadrupeds. Expedition into Central Australia The jerboa is the largest member of the family. Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 |
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