LEENKNEGT-LIOEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>Hi all,
>I am really not een expert, until a year ago I didn't even knew what a
>gerbil was, but I also took a look at the mysterious animal.
>I have a rodentbook with many pictures at home and I think it is indeed a
>gerbil. The picture looks like a Gerbillus perpallidus.
We have been breeding G. perpallidus for over ten years and these are
very different.
>The color, the eyes, the tapering and peaked face, it is all there. Could it
>be that this animal is a bit smaller than a Mongolian Gerbil?
A little, but much heavier built than G perpallidus.
> According to
>the book it must look like the Gerbillus pyramidum, the Egyptian Gerbil.
>Is this possible?
I have not discounted G. pyramidum although the face is much broader
than in the pictures of G pyramidum I have seen in books.
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Julian
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