A Hopping Mouse, doing what it does best. This wonderful little hopper was found at Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary during ecological surveying. EcoHealth surveys are a vital part of our biodiversity monitoring - Australia's largest field science program. 🎥 AWC | Australian Wildlife Conservancy

3.8K views · 200 reactions | In Australia, even our mice look like kangaroos! This is the Spinifex Hopping Mouse and we have an adorable family of them at The Australian Reptile Park - check out how cute they are! | Australian Reptile Park | Facebook

What's 10cm long, notoriously shy, and lives on a remote Top End island? These INCREDIBLY adorable tiny mice! | ABC Darwin

Bouncing into the weekend like this Tarrkawarra (Spinifex-Hopping Mouse)! 🐭 Spinifex Hopping-mice are found in arid environments throughout Central and Western Australia and inhabit sandy soils in areas of plains and dunes. Like many desert-dwelling mammals, they are highly adapted to living in the arid zone and can go without drinking – sourcing all their water from the food they eat. #FunFact: The Spinifex Hopping Mouse has such an effective urinary system that their kidneys extract every dro

339K views · 2K reactions | It’s not a mouse  It’s not a rat  It’s...