GERBIL

jûrˈbĭl, small desert rodent found throughout the hot arid regions of Africa and Asia. Also known as sand rats, gerbils have large eyes and powerful, elongated hind limbs upon which they can spring. Gerbils are 3 to 5 in. (7.6–12.7 cm) long, excluding the long tufted tail, and are sandy, gray, brown, or reddish in color with white underparts. Most species are nocturnal, and all live in burrows. Their diet consists of seeds and grains; they also eat desert plants, from which they obtain almost all the water they need. With the exception of a few species, gerbils tend to hoard food. In recent years gerbils have become popular as house pets. They are odorless, easy to raise, and usually gentle. Females may bear as many as 15 litters in a lifetime; each litter may contain up to 10 young. Gerbils are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Rodentia, family Cricetidae.

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Auditory Sound Transmission: An Autobiographical Perspective
Book by Jozef J. Zwislocki; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002
Subjects: Ear--Physiology, Hearing, Sound--Transmission
...Physical Parameter Values of the Gerbil Tectorial Membrane 178...peripheral auditory system of Mongolian gerbil. I should also mention Gisle Djupesland...guinea pigs, quite flexible in Mongolian gerbils and semirigid in humans. When the incus...
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Human Auditory Development
Book by Lynne A. Werner, G. Cameron Marean; Westview Press, 1996
Subjects: Auditory Pathways, Auditory Perception, Ear--Growth
...lower frequencies. More recent studies of gerbils, chicks, and mice are consistent with...bypassed the conductive apparatus of gerbils middle ears and stimulated the cochlea...development of otoacoustic emissions in gerbils in the period following the onset of hearing...
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A History of the Animal World in the Ancient near East
Book by Billie Jean Collins; Brill, 2002
Subjects: Animals In Art, Animals In Literature, Animals--Religious Aspects, Human-Animal Relationships--Middle East
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Children and Their Curriculum: The Perspectives of Primary and Elementary School Children
Book by Andrew Pollard, Dennis Thiessen, Ann Filer; Falmer Press, 1997
Subjects: Education, Elementary--Curricula--Great Britain, Education, Primary--Curricula
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Sensory Research: Multimodal Perspectives
Book by Ronald T. Verrillo, Jozef J. Zwislocki; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1993
Subjects: Senses and sensation--Congresses, Swislocki, Jozef J.--1922-
...6 Cochlear Potentials in Quiet-Aged Gerbils: Does the Aging Cochlea Need a Jump...has studied the effects of aging on the gerbil cochlea, and Smith chapter 3 gives us...responses in the organ of Corti of the gerbil . Hearing Research, 7 , 161-169...
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Effects of Polyethylene Glycol on Water and Saline Intake in the Mongolian Gerbil
Journal article by Frederick J. Kozub, Patrick Hauenstein; Journal of Psychology, Vol. 107, 1981
Subjects: Psychology--Periodicals
...WATER AND SALINE INTAKE IN THE MONGOLIAN GERBIL * 1 University of Richmond...the water balance regulatory ability of gerbils in response to a hypovolemic dipsogen, adult female gerbils (50-70 g) were injected subcutaneously...
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Effects of Intrauterine Position on the Behavior and Genital Morphology of Litter-Bearing Rodents
Journal article; Developmental Neuropsychology, Vol. 14, 1998
Subjects: Neuropsychology--Periodicals
...laboratory in which male and female Mongolian gerbils served as subjects. The results of the studies...litter-bearing rodent species, the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus). Mongolian Gerbils Females. Our interest in the impact...
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Counseling with Pocket Pets: Using Small Animals in Elementary Counseling Programs
Journal article by Barbara L. Flom; Professional School Counseling, Vol. 8, 2005
Subjects: Elementary school students, Health, Pets, School counseling, Student behavior
...injury. "Pocket pets" such as hamsters, gerbils, and guinea pigs provide a reasonable...easily as students note that a hamster, gerbil, or guinea pig is more likely to bite...taught strategies for preventing hamster, gerbil, or guinea pig aggression (e.g., stroke...
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Maximizing Peer-Mediated Resources in Integrated Preschool Classrooms
Journal article by Frank W. Kohler, Phillip S. Strain; Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, Vol. 19, 1999
Subjects: Disabled children--Social aspects, Peer pressure--Management, Social skills--Study and teaching
...activities (e.g., "Jimmy loves to care for the gerbil but needs reminders to be gentle"). This...to gerbil...provide to gerbil). assistance...
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"I Had It First": Teaching Young Children to Solve Problems Peacefully
Journal article by Suzanne K. Adams, Donna Sasse Wittmer; Childhood Education, Vol. 78, 2001
Subjects: Anger in children--Analysis, Childhood anger--Analysis, Conflict management--Study and teaching, Early childhood educators--Methods, Elementary school students--Psychological aspects
...Every day, several children want to feed the gerbil. If too many children feed the gerbil, he cant eat all the food and so just plays with...floor. How can we pick just one child to feed the gerbil every day?" The children decide to make "feed...
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Exposed: The Strange and Hidden Lives of Naked Mole-Rats
Magazine article by Vicki Croke; National Wildlife, August 1999
Subjects: Ecologists--Research, Naked mole-rat--Behavior, Rodents--Research
...tubing measuring 2 inches in diameter through which 106 naked mole-rats scurry about. The natural habitat of these hairless, gerbil-sized rodents is far from these rooms, in the hard-baked soil of dry regions in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. There the animals...
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Naughty Naughty: The Raunchy, Outrageous Sex Comedy Another Gay Movie Pushes Queer Cinema into Taboo-Busting New Territory
Magazine article by Lawrence Ferber; The Advocate, August 15, 2006
Subjects: Another Gay Movie (Motion picture)--Movie reviews, Motion pictures--Movie reviews
...in and notice that he also has a live gerbil shoved up his nether regions. (The latter...magic involved a fishing line and fake gerbil tail.) Stephens lampoons many aspects...day") to the aforementioned quiche-and-gerbil scene. "I burned myself during that scene...
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Tidings of Discomfort and Joy
Magazine article by Katha Pollitt; The Nation, Vol. 266, January 5, 1998
Subjects: Gifts--Planning
...ways out of this, of course. You can buy everybody on your list the same thing: a MetroCard, a sheet of Richard Nixon stamps, a gerbil, a bottle of wine. Or you can send them all a tasteful card informing them that in order to do your part in bringing down the...
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Stalking the BLACK-FOOTED CAT
Magazine article; International Wildlife, May 3, 1999
Subjects: Felidae--South Africa, South Africa--Plants and animals
...she quickly surprised a hairy-footed gerbil feeding on grass seeds. There was no struggle...play. Strangely, Lamu did not eat the gerbil but carried it off--with me in pursuit...streaked past her mother and grabbed the gerbil. With typical black-foot table manners...
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Mapping Chemical Changes in Brain
Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 122, February 1994
Subjects: Brain, Near infrared spectroscopy, Stroke, Stroke (Disease)
...the light spectrum - is used to probe the brain of a sedated gerbil as it sits in a sample box and receives a scientist-delivered...by the spectrophotometer with the help of special software. A gerbil is used because the animals brain is an established model of...
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Is That a Gerbil in Your Shoe?
Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), May 27, 2007
Is That a Gerbil in Your Shoe? Byline: MIKE LOCKLEY GUINNESS, the gerbil who we were assured would die of grief within months...light-heartedly: "It wasnt a pebble, after all. It was a gerbil!" I put the thing in a used coffee cup, handed it...
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Gerbil Has the Last Word on Art
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), July 15, 2005
Gerbil Has the Last Word on Art. Byline: By Angela Wormald A new form of art has arrived in the North ( with a gerbil as the star of the show. The unusual ( and furry ( artist...shredding items from an old encyclopaedia to produce her own Gerbils Guide to the Galaxy. North-East artist Sally Madge came...
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Average Miss Loves Sport and Her Gerbil
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), February 26, 2001
Average Miss Loves Sport and Her Gerbil. Byline: Emma Pinch The average...supports Manchester United and owns a gerbil, according to the biggest survey of young...were the only ones most likely to own a gerbil rather than a cat or a dog. The national...
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THE 'GERBIL' IS GUNNED DOWN BY BOGUS COPS; EXCLUSIVE New Fears of City Gang Wars
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), November 18, 2006
THE GERBIL IS GUNNED DOWN BY BOGUS COPS; EXCLUSIVE New Fears of City Gang Wars...shooting which left one man fighting for his life may have posed as cops. Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll and Ross Sherlock were blasted at close range on Thursday night...
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Animal Magic: My Gerbil Keeps Scratching Her Nose
Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), September 16, 2007
Animal Magic: My Gerbil Keeps Scratching Her Nose. Byline: Scott Miller Q My gerbil keeps scratching her nose, leaving it red and very sore. Whats wrong? A Its probably a bacterial infection, possibly staphylococcus or streptococcus. These cause...
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encyclopedia articles on: Gerbil  - 3 results

 
 
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Gerbil
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GERBIL jur bil, small desert rodent found throughout the hot arid regions of Africa and Asia. Also known as sand rats, gerbils have large eyes and powerful, elongated hind limbs upon which they can spring. Gerbils are 3 to 5 in. (7.6 12.7 cm) long, excluding the long tufted tail, and are...
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Mouse
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and the rice rat; it also includes the various Old and New World species of vole , hamster , lemming , muskrat , and gerbil . Still other families of the Myomorpha include the dormouse , jumping mouse , and jerboa . The pocket mouse and the...
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Rodent
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...include a great variety of mouse and rat species, as well as species of hamster , lemming , vole , muskrat , gerbil , dormouse , and jerboa . This is the largest rodent group. The Hystricomorpha, or porcupinelike rodents, include the...


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