A Hopping Mouse, doing what it does best. This wonderful little hopper was found at Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary during ecological surveying. EcoHealth surveys are a vital part of our biodiversity monitoring - Australia's largest field science program. 🎥 AWC | Australian Wildlife Conservancy

Bouncing into the weekend like this Tarrkawarra (Spinifex-Hopping Mouse)! 🐭 Spinifex Hopping-mice are found in arid environments throughout Central and Western Australia and inhabit sandy soils in areas of plains and dunes. Like many desert-dwelling mammals, they are highly adapted to living in the arid zone and can go without drinking – sourcing all their water from the food they eat. #FunFact: The Spinifex Hopping Mouse has such an effective urinary system that their kidneys extract every dro

What's 10cm long, notoriously shy, and lives on a remote Top End island? These INCREDIBLY adorable tiny mice! | ABC Darwin

Not your everyday mouse! 🐭 Let us introduce the Spinifex hopping mouse, a very small, native Aussie mouse that hops like a kangaroo! They have large eyes that help them see in the dark and quick reflexes to hop away from predators. They are one of the smallest mammals at the Zoo, and you find them inside our nguwing nura - Nocturnal Country... but shhh.. keep your voices low and no flash photography as they, and the rest of our night dwelling friends, are very sensitive to light. #ForTheWild #h

This spinifex hopping mouse was brought back to life in the nick of time. 🐭 | Discovery

In Australia, even our mice look like kangaroos! This is the Spinifex Hopping Mouse and we have an adorable family of them at The Australian Reptile Park - check out how cute they are! | Australian Reptile Park