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Persian and other Jird Links.

 Information on Persian Jirds is not very common. Much of that written about the care of Shaw's Jirds and Mongolican gerbils is also appropriate to Persians with the exception of information on temperament. Persians get on very well with each other and can live in large groups.

Persian Jirds.

Quite a few of these links have been found by searching for "persian jird" or "meriones persicus" in various search engines. It's worth trying these searches yourself to see if anything new has come up although be prepared to wade through lots of animal classification sites with no additional information. If you speak dutch you can also find quite a few dutch sites as at least some of the Persian Jirds in this country were originally imported from Holland.

Here is a very interesting post about a Persian Jird pup being raised in a Shaw's Jird litter.

The National Gerbil Society Persian Jird information.

Persian Jird Information at the Gerbil Information Page.

Small and Furries - Matthew has put a lot of work into this site which has information about a range of exotic rodents including Persian Jirds. There is have a chat forum with chats at regular times and a message board.

The Rodent Appreciation Group now has its own site for people interested in exotic rodents. RAG is an organisation that exists to promote the proper care of exotic rodents and to encourage the breeding of the more unusual species by domestic owners where zoos are short of space. It is worth joining for its intersting newletter about all sorts of exotic which is available online to members.

Here is Anne's German Persian Jird (Persische Rennmause) site. Even if you don't speak German it is still worth a visit for the great photos.

But if you do speak german why not join in at the Persian Jird Forum.

This is an interesting page for Moscow Zoo's Night World that contains enclosures for a range on rodents including Persian Jirds, Chinchillas and Degus.

Live foods direct and CJ Bird foods are sites where you can order mealworms and waxworms. Remember that you can always feed any excess to your garden birds and become the local robin's favorite person!

Fantasia Exotics is dedicated to promoting responsible ownership of Exotic animals which I think is a great idea. There are pages on all sorts of exotic animals including Persian Jirds as well as chat and mailing lists and animal classifieds.

There is now a Jird Mailing List at eGroups.

An entertaining story on how Persian Jird food storage confused archaologists can be found in articles in About Archaology, Physical Anthropology online and Geoworlds

Here is the Open Directory Project's Jird Index.

Some information on the Zagros Mountains which are a Persian Jird habitat.

A report by the WWF on the Central Persian Desert basins which are also home to the Persian Jird.

Persian Jirds (Persische Rennmause) seem to be becoming more common in Germany these days and a number of people have emailed me to ask me to link to their sites. Even if you don't speak German they are still worth a visit for the great photos.

Here is Anne's German Persian Jird site.

This is a German language but has a couple of cute pictures on it if your german isn't so good.

And here is Ramona's German language site as well. She also has links to some more Persian Jird sites. I think it's about time I improved my German!

If you're feeling scientific here's an article entitled: A Study of the Taxonomy and Karyology of Meriones Persicus in Turkey.

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