Jumping Mouse
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
rodent slightly larger than the common mouse, found in North America and N Asia, also called the kangaroo mouse. Its long hind legs and tail enable it to leap distances up to 12 ft (3.7 m).
Meadow Jumping Mouse
MEADOW JUMPING MOUSE
Photo Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...
Western Jumping Mouse
Relatives in same Genus
Meadow Jumping Mouse (Z. hudsonius) ...
Meadow Jumping Mouse Behaviour
No observations regarding Meadow Jumping Mouse behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Meadow Jumping Mice ...
Pacific Jumping Mouse (Zapus trinotatus)
No photo of the Pacific Jumping Mouse available.
Meadow Jumping Mouse Zapus hudsonius pallidus Cockrum and Baker
Description: The meadow jumping mouse is a graceful, colorful mammal that can be distinguished from other Kansas rodents by: 1) long tapering tail, ...
Meadow Jumping Mouse (Zapus hudsonius)
White Footed Mouse (Peromyscus leucopus leucopus)
Woodland Jumping Mouse (Napaeozapus insignis) ...
Meadow Jumping Mouse (Zapus hudsonius) - C
Meadow Vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus) - C
Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) - C ...
A small jumping mouse-like rodent with very large hind legs and a long tail. It spends the day in a burrow in the desert and comes out at night in search of seeds and plants.
Life span
2-3 years (5-6 in captivity).
Western Jumping Mouse
Order: Rodentia
Family: Dipodidae
Zapus princeps - hibernating
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Western Jumping Mouse
Zapus princeps
Family: Heteromyidae (Pocket Mice, Kangaroo Mice and Rats) ...
Unlike most other mice, the meadow jumping mouse and the woodland jumping mouse are hibernators. Small (one-half to one ounce), with extremely long tails and hind legs, both species eat insects, seeds, and fruit.
meadow jumping mouse (Zapus hudsonius americanus)
meadow vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus pennsylvanicus)
Mearn's eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus mearnsii)
northern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis pennsylvanicus) ...
Meadow jumping mouse (Zapus hudsonius)
Cut-leaved germander (Teucrium botrys)
Four-spotted moth (Tyta luctuosa)
Asian white-backed vulture (Gyps bengalensis)
Rufous hare wallaby (Lagorchestes hirsutus) ...
Cochran, P., J. Cochran. 1999. Predation on a Meadow Jumping Mouse, Zapus hudsonius, and a House Mouse, Mus musculus, by Brown Trout, Salmo trutta. Canadian Field-Naturalist, 113 (4): 684-685.
They pass the coldest part of the winter in hibernation; a trait shared by other rodents such as the jumping mouse, of which two kinds occur in the Smokies, and the eastern chipmunk, the park's only ground-dwelling squirrel.
Great Smoky Mountains ...
RODENTIA: Dipodidae (Jumping Mice)
Common Name Scientific Name Distribution
Woodland Jumping Mouse
Napaeozapus insignis ...
Most species are nocturnal, gregarious, burrowing desert dwellers and are seed eaters able to go without water. The similar kangaroo rat and jumping mouse of North America are not of the same family as the jerboa.
indica) is also a nocturnal burrowing animal, feeding chiefly on grain, which it stores up in underground repositories, closing these when full, and only drawing upon them when the supply of food above ground is exhausted (see also Jumping Mouse).
A dramatic increase of the meadow jumping mouse (Zapus hudsonius) in a post-drought, restored, tallgrass prairie. In: Wickett, Robert G.; Lewis, Patricia Dolan; Woodliffe, Allen; Pratt, Paul, eds.
 See also: Mouse, Weasel, House Mouse, Deer, Beaver
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