Meet The Long-Eared Jerboa – The Absolutely Adorable Tiny Mysterious Creature

Mother Nature often surprises us with some of its creations, and the long-eared jerboa is a perfect example of this. Just look at it, it’s absolutely tiny, ears like a rabbit, the body of a mouse, the snout of a pig and the hind legs of a donkey. Are we sure it’s not a Pokemon? But it is exactly this mysterious weirdness that makes the tiny creature so popular with people all over the internet.

Images of the long-eared jerboa, a kangaroo-like rodent dubbed the Mickey Mouse of the desert for its enormous ears, have been captured for the first time in its natural habitat by a team from London Zoo. Euchoreutes naso, easily identified by its disproportionately large ears, a third bigger than its head, has also evolved legs that allow it to jump like a kangaroo. It has been classified as endangered in the World Conservation Union's Red List.