Species group · Mammals
WAnimals has 6 species of mouse, spread across 4 families (Caenolestidae, Dasyuridae, Muridae, Potoroidae).
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.
Recorded in 58 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
Litter size increases with latitude: the populations of southern Spain have the smallest litters in Europe.
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It can shed the skin of its tail and regrow it as a defence against a predator.
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The young eat the droppings of adults to obtain vitamin B12 and the bacteria they need in order to digest cellulose.
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It weaves a spherical nest among the stems of tall grass, halfway up from the ground: a structure no other European species builds in the same way.
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Mechanised mowing affects it more than any other rodent, because it destroys those aerial nests outright.
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Its genus separated from Apodemus and Mus in the Pliocene, some 7 million years ago, and today contains a single species.
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It stores fat in its tail and goes into daily torpor to save energy.
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Its tail works as a larder: it swells until it looks like a carrot when food is plentiful and is used up during lean spells, a reserve visible at a glance.
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Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 6.
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