kangaroo rat

1. Some fear the new protections might push species such as the Texas kangaroo rat or the golden-winged warbler down the same road to extinction as the ivory-billed woodpecker.
   一些人担心，新的保护动作将使如德州戴鼠鼠和金翅萤森莺这样的物种走上和象牙嘴啄木鸟一样的灭绝之路。
2. Most widely distributed kangaroo rat: plains and mountain areas of central and western United States.
   分布最广泛的更格卢鼠；美国中部和西部的平原和山区。

noun

1. any of several rabbit-sized ratlike Australian kangaroos

   Synonym:    rat kangaroo

2. any of various leaping rodents of desert regions of North America and Mexico

   Synonym:    desert ratDipodomys phillipsii