THE SPARTAN JERBOA
The far-famed camel’s powers .of abstinence, due to the porous nature of its stomach, 'do not appear to extend much beyond two and a-half months. More remarkable are the addax and oryx antelopes, and various gazelles hailing from the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, which are never known to drink in the wild. Several desert ground squirrels are equally abstinent, even, in the presence of abundant water, and a jerboa rut, kept in a London house, was of so spartan,,a nature that it not merely refused water, but preferred dry bran and pats to such relatively luscious fare as apple or carrot.
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Evening Star, Issue 23325, 22 July 1939, Page 9 (Supplement)
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102THE SPARTAN JERBOA Evening Star, Issue 23325, 22 July 1939, Page 9 (Supplement)
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