Deer Mouse
: Family Muridae : Peromyscus maniculatus (Wagner)
Description.
Deer Mouse Behaviour
No observations regarding Deer Mouse behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Deer Mice ...
The Deer Mouse was first reported by Wagner, 1845. In general members of this order are found all over the world, except for Antarctica. The largest living rodent weighs around 50 kilograms or 110 pounds, and this is called the capybara.
The deer mouse coloration is described as "bicolored", meaning it has a distinctly darker upper body coloration compared to the white undersides.
Deer Mouse
Peromyscus maniculatus (Wagner)
Description: The deer mouse is the smallest and most abundant member of its genus in Kansas. It can be distinguished from other members of its family by: 1) rather small size, 2) tail somewhat ...
Deer Mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus)
Eastern Harvest Mouse (Reithrodontomys humulis humilis)
Golden Mouse (Ochrotomys nuttali) ...
The deer mouse and white-footed mouse are very similar. Both have large eyes and ears and rather long tails. They nest almost anywhere, in ground burrows, tree holes, old bird nests, and buildings.
Keen's deer mouse is the most common deer mouse in the Pacific Northwest. It inhabits rainy, mild climate zones at higher elevations than the closely-related deer mouse, and prefers areas where the forest canopy is somewhat open.
El Carrizo deer mouse (Peromyscus ochraventer)
Information on the El Carrizo deer mouse is currently being researched and written and will appear here shortly... More 3 Images 0 videos ...
A small deer mouse from California which is unusual in forming long-term pair bonds, with males contributing to the raising of the young.
Campbell's monkey
A quiet and camouflaged guenon monkey, living in small groups in the West African forest.
In a survey of small mammals on 29 sites in subalpine forests in Colorado and Wyoming, the deer mouse had the highest frequency of occurrence; however, it was not always the most abundant small mammal [95].
deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus nubiterre)
Delmarva Peninslula fox squirrel (Sciurus niger cinereus)
Dismal Swamp short-tailed shrew (Blarina brevicauda telmalestes)
Dismal Swamp southeastern shrew (Sorex longisrostris fisheri) ...
House Mouse: The American white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) and the deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) also sometimes live in houses. These species of mice live commensally with humans.
It is often confused with the Deer Mouse and House Mouse, two species that coexist with the harvest mouse. It can be distinguished from these two species by: more buffy dorsal color and a smaller size.
Captive bred Peromyscus maniculatus (Deer Mouse).
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DEERMOUSE FACTS ...
Barred Owl
Swooped down to pick up a small rodent right in front of my car,rodent was probably a deer mouse ...
Danville
11/06/10 ...
The cosmopolitan family Cricetidae includes the native New World mice, such as the deer mouse, American harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys), the carnivorous grasshopper mouse, the South American field mice, the pack rat, and the rice rat; ...
A pair of eyes equipped for nocturnal vision search for movement ahead on the forest floor. A deer mouse foraging in a carpet of leaves, ...
 See also: Deer, House Mouse, Mouse, Harvest mouse, Porcupine
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