[6] The French zoologist Fernand Lataste first described Pachyuromys duprasi in 1880 in Laghouat, Algeria in Le Naturaliste.

Fat-tailed gerbils are native to the Northern Sahara (North-western Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria).

In the wild, fat-tailed gerbils live in simple burrows about one meter deep, in hard sandy soil.

[7] In captivity, they are kept on a basic rodent mix, and are fond of mealworms, crickets, moths, and almost any other insect, even beetles.

Fat-tailed gerbils, like most other rodents, have scent glands on their stomach and engage in marking their territory by stretching out and rubbing their bellies on the ground and furnishings.