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The deer mouse nests alone for the most part but during the winter will nest in groups of 10 or more. [26] Deer mice, specifically the prairie form, are also abundant in the farmland of the midwestern United States. [5] Deer mice can be found active on top of snow or beneath logs during the winter seasons. [17]
Peromyscus is a genus of rodents.They are commonly referred to as deer mice or deermice, not to be confused with the chevrotain or "mouse deer". They are New World mice only distantly related to the common house and laboratory mouse, Mus musculus.
The supporters of the coat of arms of Malacca are two mouse deer, alluding to the founding legend of Malacca. According to the Malay Annals, King Parameswara, seeking a place to found a new city, came to a place where he saw a mouse deer (kancil in Malay) kicking his hunting dog into the river. He thought this boded well, remarking, 'this place ...
They consist of four tribes, 16 genera, and many species of New World rats and mice, predominantly found in North America. Among them are the well-known deer mice, white-footed mice, packrats, and grasshopper mice .
Although found throughout most of western North America, it is absent from parts of the Southwestern United States and most of Mexico, where it is instead replaced with the similar southern deer mouse (P. labecula) and black-eared mouse (P. melanotis), Baja California and most of California south of San Francisco Bay, where it is replaced by ...
The Mexican deer mouse inhabits the tropical lowlands of southern Mexico, reaching as far north as San Luis Potosi in the east and the Guerrero-Oaxaca border in the west. It is also found in the central and Pacific coastal regions of Central America, including Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
The deer mouse. The deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) is the best studied species, other than humans, in terms of high-altitude adaptation. [1] The deer mice native to Andes highlands (up to 3,000 m (9,800 ft)) are found to have relatively low hemoglobin content. [41]
The northwestern deer mouse or Keen's mouse (Peromyscus keeni) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in British Columbia in Canada and in Alaska and Washington in the United States. [1] It was named after the Rev. John Henry Keen in 1894. [2]