Mice
A mouse is a small rodent. The word mice or mouse is sometimes used to refer to any small rodent. The word mouse has no exact meaning in classification systems. There are numerous amounts of mice in the world, but for convenience they are often grouped as the Eurasian mice and the American mice. Most mice live in human habitats. Most, but not all, of the rodents called mice are members of the rodent subclass Myomorpha, meaning mouse like rodents. There are around 1,100 species in this group and are classified in several different families. Other types of mice include: the European harvest mouse, the African tree mouse, the deer mouse, the American harvest mouse, the grasshopper mouse, the South American field mouse, pack rats, and rice rats. Other rode
The house mouse, Mus musculus, mostly encountered in buildings, has been brought over by humans from Eurasia to all inhabited areas in the world. These mice are brown or gray, and can grow up to twenty cm. long, including a ten cm. tail. These mice will eat almost everything edible. They mature very quickly and are able to mate only two or three months after they are born. Their liters consist of up to 12 young at a time, and in warmer places, mating occurs throughout the year. The house mice are sometimes used in lab experiments and are also sometimes kept as house pets. nts that resemble mice are the mole, hamster, lemming, muskrat, and the gerbil. There is a marsupial mouse, but it is not a rodent descendant, but instead a kangaroo ancestor. Fi
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