James Fields, age 33 , of Easy , In for his question:

What is a Zapodidae?

Zapodidae is the name of a family of jumping mice   and the champions of the family are native North Americans. One is the meadow jumping mouse   alias the kangaroo rat, though he is not a rat. The other is the woodland jumping mouse. Their names tell you where they can be found.

Both are small and mousy creatures with long tails and very overgrown hind legs. Fully grown, each of them weighs about one aunts. But my, what jumpers, They travel kangaroo style and the meadow jumping mouse can usually jump highest and farthest. This little mite, no rmre than one ounce in weight, can bound along in twelve foot leaps, There are jumping mice of the Zapodidae family in other parts of the world, but our little meadow jumping mouse is the champ.