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The word dormouse comes from Middle English dormous, of uncertain origin, possibly from a dialectal *dor-, from Old Norse dár 'benumbed' and Middle English mous 'mouse'.. The word is sometimes conjectured to come from an Anglo-Norman derivative of dormir 'to sleep', with the second element mistaken for mouse, but no such Anglo-Norman term is known to have existed.
Cecotropes (also caecotropes, cecotrophs, cecal pellets, soft feces, or night feces) are a nutrient filled package created in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, expelled and eaten by rabbits and guinea pigs (among other animals) to get more nutrition out of their food. The first time through the GI tract, small particles of fiber are moved into ...
A dormouse is a rodent of the family Gliridae (this family is also variously called Myoxidae or Muscardinidae by different taxonomists). Dormice are nocturnal animals found in Africa, Asia, and Europe.
A print showing cats and mice from a 1501 German edition of Aesop's Fables. This list of fictional rodents is subsidiary to the list of fictional animals and covers all rodents, including beavers, mice, chipmunks, gophers, guinea pigs, hamsters, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines and squirrels, as well as extinct or prehistoric species.
During the heat of the day, they shelter in burrows. At night, they leave the burrows due to the cooler temperature of their environment. They dig the entrances to their burrow near plant life, especially along field borders. During the rainy season, they make tunnels in mounds or hills to reduce the risk of flooding.
Capitol Critters is an American animated sitcom produced by Steven Bochco Productions and H-B Production Co. in association with 20th Century Fox Television for ABC.The show is about the lives of mice, rats and roaches who reside in the basement and walls of the White House in Washington, D.C. [1] Seven out of the show's 13 episodes were aired on ABC from January 28 to March 14, 1992. [2]
A T-maze, with food at the end of one arm and an empty bowl at the other. In behavioral science, a T-maze (or the variant Y-maze) is a simple forked passage used in animal cognition experiments.
As they make their way through the sub-basement, Hall and Warwick discover that it harbors something more terrifying and hideous than any of them could have dreamed—a cow-sized queen rat with no eyes or legs, whose only purpose is to endlessly breed more rats. Hall sprays Warwick towards the queen with a hose they were using to attack the rats.