JERBOA
Its Amazing Adaptation:This desert dwelling, nocturnal mammal called the Jerboa, has many amazing adaptations for desert life. One of these amazing adaptations is the way it keeps hydrated. The Jerboa eats insects, roots, grass, seeds and plants. Since it lives in the desert where water is scarce, it must obtain moisture from the food it eats. When this small mammal eats plants that are fresh and hydrated it feeds off the leaves, but, when the plants dry up in the hot desert sun what will they do? The Jerboa eats food that they can extract moisture from, so what happens when the only plants there are to eat are shrivelled and withered? What the Jerboa does is digs until it finds the roots of the plant and eats that. The Jerboa does this because the roots are where plants store water, therefore the Jerboa obtains moisture, stays happy, hydrated and continues to reside in the desert.
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