Banner-tailed Kangaroo Rat
Dipodomys spectabilis
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 75
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Near Threatened
Description
The banner-tailed kangaroo rat (Dipodomys spectabilis) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is found in arid environments in the southwestern United States and Mexico where it lives in a burrow by day and forages for seeds and plant matter by night.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Banner-tailed kangaroo rat”.