The thing it does, of course, is bringing joy to the world through bird-like hopping. Not to be confused with such similar species as the Kangaroo rat, Australian hopping mice, and some crime-against-nature offspring born from the drunken mating of a titmouse and a dormouse, the jerboa is native to regions of between northern Africa and central Asia. The above one, who hops to a soundtrack that seems to have been taken from a video game, hails from Africa, while the below one is a pygmy jerboa and therefore comes from temperate Asian deserts.
Both specimens glimpsed in these videos, however, seem to live in sterile, lab-like environments. Maybe they’re adapting.
Bonus points for the second one: It falls off its pedestal about 32 seconds into the clip.
Previous things from Dina:
- The word milt
- Strange, Scandinavian words for cooties
- The Eater of Meaning
- The trailer for the 1967 film Teenage Mother
- The St. Andrews Face Transformer
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