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Great Gerbil

Educational resources on Great Gerbil

Great Gerbil or Rhombomys opimus is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Lower Risk/Least Concern . IUCN Profile of the Great Gerbil

Academic web links for the Great Gerbil.


ADW: Rhombomys: Classification
... great gerbil)
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Rhombomys.html

Alarm signals of the great gerbil: Acoustic variation by predator ...
Alarm signals of the great gerbil: Acoustic variation by predator context, sex, age, individual, and family group Jan A. Randall Department of Biology, San Francisco State
faculty.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/faculty/bjmccowan/Pubs/Randalletal.JASA.2005.pdf

ADW: Rhombomys opimus: Information
In the Middle East they are found in Iran, Afghanistan, and western Pakistan. Great gerbil are also said to inhabit areas of Southwestern Russia.
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Rhombomys_opimus.html

ADW: Muridae: Classification
Family Muridae (Old World mice and rats, gerbils, whistling rats, and relatives) ... great gerbil)
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Muridae.html

Lynn J. Fancher at CoD
This title reflects the Great Gerbil Project, a genetics project in which I indulged for seven or eight years. One of these days, I'll get ambitious and add a dissertation
www.cod.edu/people/faculty/fancher/FANCHER.HTM

ADW: Gerbillinae: Classification
... great gerbil)
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Gerbillinae.html

ADW: Rhombomys opimus: Classification
Rhombomys opimus (great gerbil) ...
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/path/Rhombomys_opimus.html

Janet A. Randall...Behavioral Ecologist
The great gerbil of Uzbekistan lives in extended family groups. It footdrums in combination with vocal and visual signals to warn group members of predation risk from reptilian and
userwww.sfsu.edu/~jrandall

Modelling Immunity Against Infectious Plague Bacteria in Great Gerbils ...
This implies that the proba-bilitythata caught great gerbil is bacteriologically positive approximately equals the probability thata (random) great gerbil is bacteriologically posi-
www.stat.uiowa.edu/techrep/tr336.pdf

a sand fly - Lutzomyia shannoni Dyar
For instance, rodenticides have been used against the great gerbil, Rhombomys opimus, in Central Asia. Insecticide spraying of larval habitat is usually normally not possible
entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/creatures/misc/flies/Lutzomyia_shannoni.htm







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