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Hop, skip, run, leap: Unpredictability boosts survival for bipedal desert rodents

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Sometimes it pays to be unpredictable. A new study shows that when bipedal desert rodents called jerboas are being chased, sudden changes in direction, gait and speed help them elude hungry predators...
by Jim Erickson

A bipedal jerboa, one of the rodent species included in a study of unpredictability in animal movements. Image credit: Talia Moore and Kim Cooper

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09/05/2017
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