LIFE CYCLE: Kangaroo rats generally live two to five years. FEEDING: San Bernardino kangaroo rats feed on seeds, grains, insects, and seasonally available green vegetation. They have pouches on the ...

The desert rat-kangaroo was known to eat mostly leaves of plants, but its short round face led previous researchers to suggest that it could eat harder foods as well if needed, such as seeds and ...

and San Bernardino kangaroo rats actually need regular flooding in order to survive. The rats, who get their name because of their two-legged stance and large haunches, eat mostly seeds and are ...

Bouncing around on their giant hind feet, seed-eating San Bernardino kangaroo rats are highly adapted to southwestern deserts and the natural flood cycles found there. Though these kangaroo rats ...

To understand why kangaroos hop -- a rarity among animals -- researchers have studied the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus), a diminutive marsupial that weighs only 500 grams but is the ...

The desert rat-kangaroo was known to eat mostly leaves of plants, but its short round face led previous researchers to suggest that it could eat harder foods as well if needed, such as seeds and ...

New research on the feeding habits of the desert rat-kangaroo could help locate the possibly extinct species, with ...

As the only living macropodoid (the group that includes kangaroos, wallabies, potoroos and bettongs) that doesn’t hop, they can provide a crucial insight into how and when this iconic form of ...

The desert rat-kangaroo was known to eat mostly leaves of plants, but its short round face led previous researchers to suggest that it could eat harder foods as well if needed, such as seeds and ...

Officially, the ngudlukanta – also known as the desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris) – is one of the many small Australian mammals lost to cats and foxes, but all hope is not gone.

There may be no truer a case of this than the desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris ... eat harder desert foods like roots, nuts and seeds. But in our latest analysis, we showed that ...