Its usual diet consists of the jerboas and other small mammalia, and as they are exceedingly active, while the Cerastes is slow and sluggish, its only chance of obtaining food is to lie in wait.
Very little is known of his life when free; it being known only that the jerboas are widely spread over the whole of southern Africa, and are nocturnal burrowers of the steppes.
These African jerboas are exceedingly odd in appearance, and they are two-legged in their habits of walk, and never go on all-fours.
The jerboas or jumping mice are not only skilled athletes in the art of jumping, but they are gifted food conservers and producers as well.
No sign of its existence appears from above the surface of the earth, but if an enemy invades the burrow, away the jerboas rush for this secret exit and break through to the surface out of reach of the trouble, and escape.
In America there are no true jerboas: they are there represented by the Jumping Mice of Labrador and the Hudson's Bay Territory; which resemble the jerboas in almost everything except size, the jumping mice being much smaller animals.
Africa and Asia are the head-quarters of these quadrupeds--the most noted species being the Jerboas of Egypt, and the Leaping Hare of the Cape.
The jerboas constitute, in the family of dipodidae, a tribe composed of several species, which are found in eastern and central Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Jerboas are very common in Egypt and other parts of North Africa, and live in burrows which they dig in the sandy soil.
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