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Any of the relatively small placental mammals that constitute the order Rodentia, having constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing. (Source: MGH)

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Withers PC, Louw GN, Henschel J 1980. Energetics and water relations of Namib desert rodents. South African Journal of Zoology 15 (3) 131-137

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Rathbun GB, Dumbacher JP 2015. Home range and use of diurnal shelters by the Etendeka round-eared sengi, a newly discovered Namibian endemic desert mammal. PeerJ e1302

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Rathburn G, Smit-Robinson H 2016. A conservation assessment of Macroscelides proboscideus. The Red List of Mammals of South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho

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Rathbun GB, Osborne TO, Coals PGR 2015. Distribution of the Etendeka round-eared sengi (Macroscelides micus), a Namibian endemic mammal. Journal of the Namibia Scientific Society 63 153-157

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Griffin M 1990. A review of taxonomy and ecology of gerbilline rodents of the Central Namib Desert, with keys to the species (Rodentia: Muridae). In: Seely. M.K. (ed). Namib ecology: 25 years of Namib research. 7 83-98

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Dumbacher JP, Rathbun GB, Smit HA, Eiseb SJ 2012. Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Round-Eared Sengis or Elephant-Shrews, Genus Macroscelides (Mammalia, Afrotheria, Macroscelidea). Plos ONE 7 (3) e32410

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Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Round_Eared Sengis or Elephant_Shrews.pdf	634.04 KB

Meester J 1964. Revision of the Chrysochloridae I. the desert golden mole Eremitalpa Roberts. Scientific Papers of the Namib Desert Research Station 26 1-8

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Holm E 1969. Contribution to the knowledge of the biology of the Namib Desert golden mole, Eremitalpa granti namibensis Bauer and Niethammer 1959. Scientific Papers of the Namib Desert Research Station 41 37-42

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Contribution to the knowledge of the biology of the Namib Desert golden mole.pdf	1.06 MB

Hopwood AT, Lang H 1929. New and little-known mammals from the Miocene of Africa. American Museum Novitates 334

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Griffin E 1990. Seasonal activity, habitat selection and species richness of Solifugae (Arachnida) on the gravel plains of the central Namib Desert. A review of taxonomy and ecology of gerbilline rodents of the central Namib Desert, with keys to the species (Rodentia: Muridae). Transvaal Museum Monographs 7 (3) 77-82

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Dean WRJ 1975. Tyto alba prey in South West Africa and the northern Cape. Zoologica Africana 10 217 - 219

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Simmons R, Barnard P, MacWhirter B, Hansen GL 1986. The influence of microtines on polygyny, productivity, age, and provisioning of breeding Northern Harriers - a 5-year study. Canadian Journal of Zoology 64 (11) 2447 - 2456

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Website link:http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/z86-365

Boyer DC 1988. Tree rats in the Namib dunes. Madoqua 15 (4) 341-342

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Dempster ER, Perrin MR, Downs CT 1999. Gerbillurus vallinus. Mammalian Species 605 1-4

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Dempster ER, Perrin MR 1991. Neonatal development of Gerbillurus vallinus and G. setzeri. Madoqua 18 (1) 51-53

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Webb PI, Skinner JD 1994. The dormice (Myoxidae) of southern Africa. Hystrix 6 (1-2) 287-293

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Chimimba CT 2001. Infraspecific morphometric variation in Aethomys namaquensis (Rodentia: Muridae) from southern Africa. Journal of Zoology 253 (2) 191-210

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1017/S0952836901000176/abstract

Leger JST 1933. A New Species of Myomys from South-West Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 103 (2) 411

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1933.tb01602.x/abstract

Schoepf I, Schradin C 2014. Arginine vasopressin plasma levels change seasonally in African striped mice but do not differ between alternative reproductive tactics. General and Comparative Endocrinology 204 43-48

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016648014001749

Molteno AJ, Bennett NC 2002. Social Suppression in Nonreproductive Female Damaraland Mole-rats, Cryptomys damarensis: No Apparent Role for Endogenous Opioid Peptides. Hormones and Behavior 41 (2) 115-125

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0018506X0191743X

Young AJ, Oosthuizen MK, Lutermann H, Bennett NC 2010. Physiological suppression eases in Damaraland mole-rat societies when ecological constraints on dispersal are relaxed. Hormones and Behavior 57 (2) 177-183

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0018506X09002426

Snyman PC, Jackson CR, Bennett NC 2006. Do dispersing non-reproductive female Damaraland mole-rats, Cryptomys damarensis (Rodentia: Bathyergidae) exhibit spontaneous or induced ovulation?. Physiology and Behavior 87 (1) 88-89

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031938405003847

du Toit N, Jansen van Vuuren B, Matthee S, Matthee CA 2012. Biome specificity of distinct genetic lineages within the four-striped mouse Rhabdomys pumilio (Rodentia: Muridae) from southern Africa with implications for taxonomy. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65 (1) 75-78

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790312002187

Avery DM 1993. Last interglacial and holocene altithermal environments in South Africa and Namibia: micromammalian evidence. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 103 (3-4) 221-228

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/003101829390014A

Rathbun GB, Rathbun CD 2006. Social monogamy in the noki or dassie-rat (Petromus typicus) in Namibia. Mammalian Biology - Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde 71 (4) 203-213

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1616504706000218

Buffstein R 1984. The importance of microhabitat in thermoregulation and thermal conductance in two namib rodents - a crevice dweller, Aethomys namaquensis, and a burrow dweller, Gerbillurus paeba. Journal of Thermal Biology 9 (4) 235-241

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0306456584900020

Lovegrove BG 1986. The metabolism of social subterranean rodents: adaptation to aridity. Oecologia 69 (4) 551-555

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00410361

Buffstein R, Campbell WE, Jarvis JUM 1985. Identification of crystalline allantoin in the urine of African Cricetidae (Rodentia) and its role in their water economy. Journal of Comparative Psychology B 155 (4) 493-499

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00684680

Buffstein R 1985. The effect of a high fibre diet on energy and water balance in two Namib desert rodents. Journal of Comparative Psychology B 155 (2) 211-218

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00685215

Sinclair ARE, Olsen PD, Redhead TD 1990. Can predators regulate small mammal populations - evidence from house mouse outbreaks in Australia. Oikos 59 (3) 382 - 392

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/3545150

Meserve PL, Gutierrez JR, Jaksic FM 1993. Effects of vertebrate predation on a Caviomorph rodent, the Degu (Octodon degus), in a semiarid thorn scrub community in Chile. Oecologia 94 (2) 153 – 158

Website link:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28314026

Vasquez RA 1994. Assessment of predation risk via illumination level - facultative central place foraging in the Cricetid rodent Phyllotis darwini. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 34 (5) 375 – 381

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/4600955

Massawe AW, Mulungu LS, Makundi RH, Dlamini N, Mahlaba T, Monadjem A, Eiseb SJ, Tutjavi V, Kirsten F, Malebane P, von Maltitz E, Taylor P, Belmain SR 2011. Spatial and temporal population dynamics of rodents in three geographically different regions in Africa: implication for ecologically-based rodent management. African Zoology 46 (2) 393-405

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/afzoo/46/2/EJC18193

Yarnell RW, Metcalfe DJ, Dunstone N, Burnside N, Scott DM 2008. The impact of fire on habitat use by the short-snouted elephant shrew (Elephantulus brachyrhynchus) in North West Province, South Africa. African Zoology 43 (1) 45-52

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/afzoo/43/1/EJC18067

Fleming PA, Nicolson SW 2002. Opportunistic breeding in the Cape spiny mouse (Acomys subspinosus): short communication. African Zoology 37 (1) 101-105

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/afzoo/37/1/EJC17807

Fleming PA, Nicolson SW 2004. Sex differences in space use, body condition and survivorship during the breeding season in the Namaqua rock mouse, Aethomys namaquensis. African Zoology 39 (1) 123-132

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/afzoo/39/1/EJC17902

Rathbun GB, Rathbun CD 2006. Social structure of the bushveld sengi (Elephantulus intufi) in Namibia and the evolution of monogamy in the Macroscelidea. Journal of Zoology 269 (3) 391-399

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2006.00087.x/abstract

Dumbacher JP, Rathbun GB, Osborne TO, Griffin M, Eiseb SJ 2014. A new species of round-eared sengi (genus Macroscelides) from Namibia. Journal of Mammalogy 95 (3) 443-454

Website link:http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1644/13-MAMM-A-159

2002. Rodent diversity.

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Lim S, Chase BM, Chevalier M, Reimer PJ 2016. 50,000 years of vegetation and climate change in the southern Namib Desert, Pella, South Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 451 197-209

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018216001619

de Winton WE 1898. I. - On the nomenclature and distribution of some of the rodents of South Africa, with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2 (7) 1-8

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222939808678005#.VIqkUmctDcs

de Winton WE 1897. XXXII. - On a new mouse from Damaraland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 19 (111) 349-350

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222939708680543#.VIlVcGctBHg

Cooney R 1998. The Damaraland mole-rat: social life in the Kalahari. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 53 (2) 219-225

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00359199809520388#.VIlS_WctBHg

Perrin MR, Ridgard BW 1999. Thermoregulation and patterns of torpor in the spectacled dormouse, Graphiurus ocularis (A. Smith 1829) (Gliridae). Tropical Zoology 12 (2) 253-266

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03946975.1999.10539392#.VH1zkGctBHg

Halle S 1993. Diel pattern of predation risk in microtine rodents. Oikos 68 (3) 510 - 518

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/3544919

Perrin MR, Boyer DC 1994. The effect of rodents on plant recruitment and production in the dune fields of the Namib Desert. Tropical Zoology 7 (2) 299-308

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03946975.1994.10539260#.VGMcvFItBHg

Perrin MR, Boyer H, Boyer DC 1992. Diets of the Hairy-Footed Gerbils Gerbillurus paeba abd G. tytonis from the dunes of the Namib Desert. Israel Journal of Zoology 38 (3-4) 373-383

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00212210.1992.10688684#.VGIKcVItBHg

Krug CB 2004. Survival in the Namib: Adaptations of the striped mouse to an arid environment. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 59 (2) 93-98

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00359190409519167#.VGICF1ItBHg

2002. 4.16 Mammal diversity.

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Hauptfleisch M, Bockmühl D, D'Alton C, Avenant N The Benefit of studying ecosystems at Namibian airports.

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