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  2. Mouse - Wikipedia

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    A mouse (pl.: mice) is a small rodent. Characteristically, mice are known to have a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail, and a high breeding rate. The best known mouse species is the common house mouse (Mus musculus). Mice are also popular as pets. In some places, certain kinds of field mice are locally common. They are ...

  3. List of domesticated animals - Wikipedia

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    Fancy mouse a.k.a. laboratory mouse (Mus musculus domestica) Western European house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus), Japanese house mouse (Mus musculus molossinus) 1100 BCE (China), then the 17th century CE (Europe), [52] the 18th Century (Japan) China, Europe, Japan: animal feed, racing, research, show, pets Tame, significant physical changes

  4. House mouse - Wikipedia

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    The house mouse (Mus musculus) is a small mammal of the order Rodentia, characteristically having a pointed snout, large rounded ears, and a long and almost hairless tail.. It is one of the most abundant species of the genus M

  5. Mus (genus) - Wikipedia

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    The genus Mus or typical mice refers to a specific genus of muroid rodents, all typically called mice (the adjective "muroid" comes from the word "Muroidea", which is a large superfamily of rodents, including mice, rats, voles, hamsters, gerbils, and many other relatives), though the term can be used for other rodents.

  6. List of rodents - Wikipedia

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    This list contains circa 2,700 species in 518 genera in the order Rodentia. [1] Suborder Hystricomorpha ... Trinomys myosuros - mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat;

  7. Muridae - Wikipedia

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    Mice feature in some of Beatrix Potter's small books, including The Tale of Two Bad Mice (1904), The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse (1910), The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse (1918), and The Tailor of Gloucester (1903), which last was described by J. R. R. Tolkien as perhaps the nearest to his idea of a fairy story, the rest being "beast-fables". [14]

  8. Wood mouse - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Eurasian harvest mouse - Wikipedia

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    The first survey of the harvest mouse in Britain was conducted by the Mammal Society in the 1970s, [27] and later followed up by the National Harvest Mouse survey in the late 1990s. These surveys indicated that harvest mouse nests were on a decline with 85% of the suitable habitat no longer available for the mice. [28]