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white-footed mouse

Peromyscus leucopus

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Field Notes

Description:

a small rodent with a white belly and paws. they are a new world "mouse" in the family Cricetidae and are only distantly related to true mice and rats of the family Muridae.

Habitat:

woods, fields, human habitations

Notes:

i caught this guy in the utility room at my job and released him in the woods a good distance away

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