mouse
Last update: Tuesday 02nd of December 2008
This article is about the rodent. For the computing input device, see Mouse (computing). For other uses of the word mouse, see Mouse (disambiguation). For the dessert or hair product, see Mousse (disambiguation) Mouse Fossil range: Late Miocene - Recent |
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wood mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus | | Scientific classification |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia
| | Phylum: | Chordata
| | Class: | Mammalia
| | Order: | Rodentia
| | Superfamily: | Muroidea
| | Family: | Muridae
| | Subfamily: | Murinae
| | Genus: | Mus Linnaeus, 1758 |
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30 species; see text
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A mouse (plural mice) is a small animal that belongs to one of numerous species of rodents. The best known mouse species is the common house mouse (Mus musculus). It is also a popular pet. The American white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) and the deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) also sometimes live in houses. Although mice may live up to two and a half years in the lab, the average mouse in the wild lives only about 4 months, primarily owing to heavy predation. Cats, wild dogs, foxes, birds of prey, snakes and even certain kinds of insects have been known to prey heavily upon mice. Nevertheless, because of its remarkable adaptability to almost any environment, and its ability to live commensally with humans, the mouse is regarded to be the second most successful mammalian genus living on Earth today, after humans. Mice are sometimes considered harmful pests, damaging and eating crops and spreading diseases through their parasites and feces. In western North America, breathing dust that has come in contact with mouse feces has been linked to the deadly hantavirus. The original motivation for the domestication of cats is thought to have been for their predation of mice and their relatives, the rats.
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