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>In a message dated 06/20/2000 6:02:14 PM Central Daylight Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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><< Can you describe the stripes in more detail. Was there only one? How
> wide? Was it very thin? Did it run right across the back?
>
> Did the gerbils have white bellies? >>
>I don't know if they had white bellies, the stripes were black and thin (they
>were a quarter inch thin, and ran from the butt all the way up to the ears) I
>did notice that one of them had a white tail tip, but I don't know if that
>means anything.
> ~~~( 3:> Mary <:3 )~~~
>P.S They had two stripes on either side of them.
Are you sure they were gerbils? I have never seen gerbil striped like
that. There are plenty of other rodents with stripes in that pattern
though.
It would be an unusual mutation. Could it have been some other species?
--
Julian
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