Kangaroo rats are generally solitary animals with little to no social organization.

The name is said to mean "two kangaroo rats" in the language of the local Aborigines.

So many animals, such as the kangaroo rat, only forage during the cool of the night.

Kangaroo rats are a common prey items for many other desert animals.

Rabbits and kangaroo rats, which had been hiding from the sun all day, suddenly appeared.

Recently weaned kangaroo rats move into new areas not occupied by adults.

They have also been found to steal seeds from kangaroo rats' dens.

Kangaroos rats do sometime cluster together in some feeding situations.

Groups of kangaroo rats that do exist are aggregations and colonies.

The gestation period of kangaroo rats last 22-27 days.

Kangaroo rats also live in colonies that range from six to several hundred dens.

Kangaroo rats and other small mammals use evaporative cooling in a similar way.

The lucky few may be able to see wildlife like kangaroo rats and peregrine falcons.

Merriam's kangaroo rat can leap 7-8 feet and quickly change its direction when landing.

It is a relatively large kangaroo rat that ranges in size from approximately 60 grams to 95 or more.

Kangaroo rats merge their smells by sharing a communal sand bath.

Kangaroo rats are small rodents from North and Central America.

When on foraging trips, kangaroo rats hoard the seeds that they find.

The burrow of a kangaroo rat is important in providing protection from the harsh desert environment.

In general humans have not caused adverse impact to the Merriam's kangaroo rat through most of its range.

The only signs of life are tracks of kangaroo rats and desert foxes.

But the kangaroo rat, it proved, was no such unknown animal; and my discovery was nothing.

He recognized it as a kangaroo rat.

Kangaroo rats will store extra seeds in seed caches.

There appears to be a dominance hierarchy among kangaroo rats with males competing for access to females.