The range is transcontinental, and from Alaska to southern Mexico, except for the southeastern U.S. In the Adirondacks the deer mouse is wide spread, occurring in all terrestrial habitats at all ...

Despite having few offspring per litter and their diminutive size, Mouse deer still evade predation due to their ‘elusive behaviour’ Mouse deer are not rodents but small hoofed animals and ...

Unlike the deer mouse which it closely resembles, the white-footed mouse’s fur is not soft and luxuriant, and the general color of the back and sides is a reddish or orangish, not grayish, brown. A ...

The silver-backed chevrotain, also called the Vietnamese mouse-deer, was last recorded in the 1990s. The animal, a deer-like species that is the size of a rabbit, has been hanging on in a region ...

The native deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) consumes large volumes of lupine and beach pea seeds in California coastal sand dunes. Dear mice voyage onto the open dunes only on moonless nights.