have long, soft coats and short, fat tails, appearing more like a hamster. The variation on the normal duprasi coat is more gray in color, which may be a mutation, or it may be the result of hybrids between the Egyptian and Algerian subspecies of duprasi. White spotting has been reported in not only the Mongolian gerbil, but also the pallid gerbil and possibly Sundervall's Jird. A long-haired mutation, a grey agouti or chinchilla mutation, white spotting, and possibly a dilute mutation have also appeared in Shaw's jirds, and white spotting and a dilute mutation have shown up in bushy-tailed jirds. Coat colours References External links The National Gerbil Society (U.K.) The American Gerbil Society The Gerbils.com – Everything about the gerbil The Underwhite/Underwhite Dense gene eGerbil - For everything gerbil! Meriones (rodent) Rodents of Asia Mammals described in 1867 Space-flown life