Tracy Croteau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
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>I guess my husband has never paid to much attention to gerbils in pet stores
>because it wasn't till he got home from work and went to hold one of them
>that he realized what a gerbil was LOL His exact words? " Hey, I caught one
>of these when I was in Saudi" LOL I told him "well they are a desert animal
>LOL
My guess is that the gerbil he caught in Saudi was probably a
Sundervall's Jird (Meriones crassus). They are only slightly larger than
a Mongolian Gerbil and are renowned amongst zoologists for being easy to
handle even when caught in the wild.
There are some pictures of them at:
http://www.gerbils.co.uk/gerbils/negev.htm
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Julian
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