Balikun Jerboa

The Balikun jerboa is a bipedal desert rodent with elongated hind legs, short forelimbs and a long balancing tail. Its type locality is Balikun in Xinjiang, China. Documented distribution extends through northeastern Xinjiang and southern Mongolia, where it occupies desert and semidesert. Older classifications placed it in Allactaga and sometimes treated it as a subspecies of the Gobi jerboa. (Mammal Species of the World)