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Q: Are kangaroo rats and pocket mice the same thing?
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Are kangaroo rats mice or rats?

Neither. Like mice and rats, they are rodents, but they are only distantly related to mice and rats.


What do's a kangaroo rat eat?

Kangaroo rats eat rabbits and mice


Are Kangaroo Rats part of the rat family?

No. Like rats, they are rodents, but they exist in a separate family from them. Rats belong to Muridae, the family for True Mice and Rats. Kangaroo Rats belong to the Heteromydae family, which they share with pocket mice. They differ to rats in that they hop, and have cheek pouches for food storage.


Do kangaroo mice live in the grasslands?

Kangaroo mice are quite different to kangaroos, kangaroo rats and rat-kangaroos. There are two species of kangaroo mice in North America, but several more species in Australia. They are quite unrelated to kangaroos or rat-kangaroos, but they are related to the North America kangaroo rats. Kangaroo mice in Australia are more commonly known as native hopping mice.There are several species of hopping mice, and they tend to inhabit sandy deserts, rather than grasslands.


What animals eat sagebrush?

Kangaroo rats, the pocket mouse, antelope, and jackrabbits. Also coyotes.


Which two groups of animals are warm-blooded?

Here's a list... pangolins, squirrels, beavers, pocket gophers, kangaroo rats, pocket mice, kangaroo mice, jumping mice, birch mice, jerboas, mice, rats, scaly-tailed squirrels, springhare, gundis, dormice, dassie rat, cane rats, african mole-rats, old world porcupines, new world porcupines, viscachas, chinchillas, pacarana, cavies, maras, capybara, agoutis, pacas, tuco-tucos, octodonts, chinchilla rats, spiny rats, hutias, coypu, rabbits, pikas, hares, sengis


What is the beaver's relative?

Other beavers. Outside of that, the closest living relatives would be pocket gophers and kangaroo rats.


Can you eat kangaroo rats?

are kangaroo rats edible


Do kangaroo rats have fur?

Yes; kangaroo rats do have fur.


What does crotalus scutulatus eat?

The Mojave rattlesnake feeds almost exclusively on small rodents such as mice and kangaroo rats.


What kind of small rodents do sidewinder snakes eat?

The sidewinder snake's diet consists mostly of mice, kangaroo rats, and lizards.


What adaptations has the desert sidewinder developed to survive?

It is chiefly nocturnal and takes refuge in the burrow of another animal or under a bush during the day. At night it emerges to hunt its prey, mainly small rodents, such as pocket mice and kangaroo rats, and lizards.