MINIATURE KANGAROO
“JUMPING MOUSE” FOUND. A specimen of the very rare “jumping mouse” —which resembles a miniature kangaroo—has been found by a girl aged 15, at Girilambone, western New South Wales, and is now preserved in alcohol at the Sydney Museum. This rare specimen, the first recorded capture for more than 75 years, was found in a log. The Museum mammalogist, Mr Ellis Trcughton, said that there were two species of the “jumping mouse” in Australia. The species to which the Girilambone specimen belongs was thought to be extinct, .The “jumping mouse” was a little larger than an ordinary, mouse, with two short front legs, and twp long “jumping legs” like a kangaroo. This hopping structure, said Mr Troughton, was a most remarkable development of a small marsupial to escape from birds and its other natural It had a long furred tail and a small "pouch.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19431106.2.57
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 November 1943, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
146MINIATURE KANGAROO Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 November 1943, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in