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the wood mouse (long-tailed field mouse, field mouse, common field mouse, and European wood mouse)

apodemus sylvaticus

Photo by AlexKonig
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Description:

Wood mice inhabit forests, grasslands, and cultivated fields. Almost entirely nocturnal and terrestrial, wood mice burrow extensively, build nests of plants and live in buildings during harsh seasons. It is one of the most intensively studied species in the genus. In Europe it ranges north to Scandinavia and east to Ukraine. The wood mouse is also found in northwestern Africa and on many Mediterranean islands

Notes:

there were to wood mouses. one would only be photograph and the other had no problems with a little video !!

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PublishedSeptember 17, 2011

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