An Australian mouse with elongated hindlimbs and feet for jumping.
Genus Notomys, family Muridae: several species
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- She described four types of social organisation, with the hopping mouse at one end of the spectrum.
- The long-tailed hopping mouse was one of the largest and most elegant of Australia's native hopping rodents.
- Spinifex hopping mice live in small social groups with several individuals often sharing a burrow system.
- A native hopping mouse not seen in New South Wales since the mid 1800s has been found north of Broken Hill in the far west of the State.
- Small venomless snakes, lizards, birds, and small animals like hopping mice and rabbits, were abundant in the undergrowth.