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Golden mice live in thick woodlands, swampy areas, among vines, and within small trees and shrubs. These animals especially like to live where honeysuckle , greenbrier , and red cedar grow. Golden mice in the south-central region of the United States inhabit climates that are hot and wet in the summer and dry in the winter.
The wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) is a murid rodent native to Europe and northwestern Africa. It is closely related to the yellow-necked mouse (Apodemus flavicollis) but differs in that it has no band of yellow fur around the neck, has slightly smaller ears, and is usually slightly smaller overall: around 90 mm (3.54 in) in length and 23 g in weight. [2]
Chiropodomys (or pencil-tailed tree mice) is a genus of Old World rats and mice native to Southeast Asia and northeast India. [2] They are tree-dwelling, very small mice, mostly found in tropical rainforest .
While mice predominantly live outside, a person's house can be very appealing, especially if it is messy. ... “A buildup of their feces in attic insulation, for example, may lead to illnesses ...
Deer mice inhabit a wide variety of plant communities including grasslands, brushy areas, woodlands, and forests. [6] 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. [ 7 ]
The northern birch mouse is a small mouse with a relatively long tail. The adult head and body length is 2 to 3 in (51 to 76 mm) with a tail of 3 to 4.25 in (76 to 108 mm). Adults vary in weight between 5 and 13 g (0.2 and 0.5 oz). The upper parts are yellowish-grey with a brown sheen and the underparts are a pale greyish-yellow.
These pocket mice live in soils that may be vegetated with creosote bush, palo verde, burroweed, mesquite, cholla and other cacti, and short, sparse grass, as well as in lower edges of alluvial fan with yucca, mesquite, grama, and prickly poppy. Six subspecies are currently recognised: [4] C. pencillatus pencillatus - south-central Arizona
The woodland jumping mouse occurs throughout northeastern North America. [6]Populations are most dense in cool, moist boreal woodlands of spruce-fir and hemlock-hardwoods where streams flow from woods to meadows with bankside touch-me-nots and in situations where meadow and forest intermix and water and thick ground cover are available.