Recently, a bird friend in Hotan found a strange jerboa whose body was only the size of a mineral water bottle in Minfeng County, southern Xinjiang.
After identification, Jiang Wei, a researcher at Xinjiang Center for Disease Control and prevention, believed that this is the world's smallest jerboa, belonging to a rare species, named Kirschner's three toed heart and skull jerboa.
Hotan's bird friend introduced that this little jerboa was found when he passed a red willow beach in Wutang village, Minfeng County. At that time, under the light of the lamp, this little thing that was crossing the road stopped. It turned out to be a little mouse. Seeing the unique shape of the mouse, the bird friend stuffed it into an empty mineral water bottle and took it home. It was found that the mouse was sleeping almost all day, and the longest sleeping time was 17 or 18 hours.
Jiang Wei, a researcher at the Xinjiang Center for Disease Control and prevention, who has been engaged in rodent research for a long time, carefully identified the photos and confirmed that the mouse was a three toed heart cranial jerboa. He said that this kind of jerboa is very few in the world and relatively more in the desert areas of Southern Xinjiang.
It is understood that: in general, the body weight of the three toed heart cranial jerboa is only 5 to 6 grams, which is about the same as a one yuan coin, and its body length is only about 5 cm. It is not as big as a table tennis ball because it is too small to store fat, so they put the extra fat on their tail.
In the study, it is found that the three toed heart cranial jerboa is an ideal carrier for the study of human obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and has great scientific research value for the study of diseases.
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