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Discovering the White-Footed Mouse: Fascinating Facts and Behavior

Learn about the White-Footed Mouse, its habitat, diet, enemies, and unique adaptations. Find out how long they live, their predators, defense mechanisms, and special skills like swimming and climbing. Test your knowledge with quiz questions!

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Discovering the White-Footed Mouse: Fascinating Facts and Behavior

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  1. By: Christopher Ferguson Maine Animals:White-Footed Mice

  2. Animal's Name • My animal's name is the White-Footed Mouse. • Their scientific name is peromyscus leucopus.

  3. Classification It's a mammal and it's related to the Wood Mouse.

  4. Appearance Its size and weight is 20 to 30 grams grows up to 8 inches.

  5. Movement My animal scurries really fast or else it will get eaten from a lot of predators.

  6. Diet my animal eats: • seeds • nuts • insects • grains • fruits • fungi

  7. Habitat White-Footed Mice live in a wide variety of habitats but are most abundant in warm dry forests in North America.

  8. Adaptations Some adaptations of the White-Footed Mouse are: •  sharp eyesight •  great hearing •  super sense of smell •  they use their whiskers as part of their sense of touch 

  9. Life Cycle /Reproduction • White-Footed Mice live up to be 96 months • They breed from March to October • Newborn babies are blind and their eyes open 2 weeks later

  10. Behavior • White-Footed Mice are primarily nocturnal. • They're mainly solitary and are territorial •  Something weird they do is drum their front paws on leaves or branches to make a buzzing noise, but we don't know why!

  11. Defense & Offense White-Footed Mice defend themselves by using speed to run away from predators. They are REALLY fast!

  12. Enemies The enemies that I researched are: • raccoons • birds • cats • lynx • weasels • snakes • owls

  13. Species Survival Status White-Footed Mice are not endangered or threatened, they are common and abundant.

  14. Something Special White-Footed mice are good swimmers and are EXCELLENT climbers.

  15. Bibliography Here are the websites I used for my research:  • Kid Rex: http://www.kidrex.org/results/?q=white+footed+mice&cof=       FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8&safe=high&cx=00553194045154      4459472%3A_wxzudlmale&sa.x=0&sa.y=0#1056   • bioKIDS:  http://www.biokids.umich.edu/critters/Peromyscus_leucopus/ • Mrs. C's Animal Website                               

  16. Quiz Time! Let's see what you learned about my animal! Can you answer these questions? • How long do white footed mice live? • What is one of the white footed mice enemies? • What is the white footed mice defense? • Where is the white footed mice habitat?  • What's something special about a white footed mouse?

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