Desert Leaper (DinosaursRoar's Version)

Desert Hoppers are giant llama-sized kangaroo-like hairless herbivorous rodents related to the jerboa. They are the largest of the living rodents, surpassing capybara in size, but giant paca-like South American rodents were bigger than today's desert leapers.

Description
They have long tails used for balancing. Their back legs, bodies, and arms have a similar design as kangaroos and for a same function. However, unlike kangaroos, desert leapers have the ability to store fat, just like camels, one of the desert leaper's neighbors of the Sahara Desert, and the fat increases the size of the tail base and make its skin less wrinkly after drinking lots of water, indicating that it is not thirsty for now, but it becomes wrinkly and gets less fat again with less water and the cycle continues, as with its camel neighbors. Desert leapers also have very camel-like faces and big kangaroo-like ears to loose heat due to living in a very hot environment.

Distribution
Desert leapers are found in many parts of the Sahara desert, even in the hottest parts of the desert. They were also accidentally introduced to the deserts of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, where they, by all acounts, are thriving, but fortunately has no impact towards any native wildlife, so desert leapers are left in these deserts, not just in the Sahara Desert.

Behavior
They are completely solitary, unlike camels, and when a male's territory is being invaded by another male, they both clash in a similar fight to Australia's kangaroos, often using their feet to kick rivals and front paws for swiping on their bodies and faces, and even use their tails for support in case if they try to kick. Despite this feirce behavior towards rivals, the desert leapers are very tame towards people.

Conservation Status
They are listed as least concern as they are currently flourishing in both native Sahara and nonnative California deserts, due to the fact they adapt easily into human settlements, despite their gigantic sizes.