Desert Gerbil

[Anshul Jain]

Desert Gerbil @ Bikaner

[Mrudul Godbole]

Lovely eye contact and catch-light. The low angle adds to the composition. Seems it is nibbling the wood. Please do post the EXIF details to help in commenting. Thanks for sharing.

[Anshul Jain]

Thanks.
Sorry, forgot the exif data.
7D, 100-400
1/1250, f5.6, Iso320, about 30% crop

[Saktipada Panigrahi]

Nice eye contact and details.Thanks for sharing.SaktiWild

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Nice one. Good to see this. It acts as food for many species. Slightly lowering the colour temperature will be good. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

We don't often get to see photographs of these. Nice find. Love the eye contact.
TFS

[Roopak Gangadharan]

Nice image.

TFS
Roopak

[Anshul Jain]

Thank You All.

[Abhirup Dutta Gupta]

excellent.

[Murugan Anantharaman]

Nice image Anshul. I agree, we dont get to see images of many smaller mammals. Thanks for sharing. I guess with suchs posts of 'not regular' animals a brief write up of the mammal will also help. Thanks for sharing.

Reproducing from Wikipedia:

""A gerbil is a small mammal of the order Rodentia. Once known simply as "desert rats", the gerbil subfamily includes about 110 species of African, Indian, and Asian rodents, including sand rats and jirds, all of which are adapted to arid habitats. Most are primarily diurnal (though some, including the common household pet, do exhibit crepuscular behavior), and almost all are omnivorous.

Gerbils are typically between six and 12 inches (150 and 300 mm) long, including the tail, which makes up about one-half of their total length. One species, the great gerbil, or Rhombomys opimus, originally native to Turkmenistan, can grow to more than 16 inches (400 mm). The average adult gerbil weighs about 2.5 oz. (70 g).""

[Anshul Jain]

Thanks Abhirup and Murugan for sharing the info.