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| Kingdom: | Animal |
| Phylum: | Chordate |
| Class: | Mammal |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Genus: | Peromyscus |
| Species: | leucopus |
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| Description of the White-Footed Mouse |
| The White-Footed Mouse grows up to eight inches with the tail included. Its' fur can be brown, red, or gray. It is white underneath, and sometimes has a dark stripe down it's back. The tail is very long about half the length of its' body. These mice have very large ears. |
 
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| White-Footed Mouse habitat |
| The White-Footed Mouse lives Primarily wooded areas. But also many cultivated and open habitat, epically adjacent to woods. Also, White-Footed mice live in wooded, brushy areas or open areas next to woods, such as marshes. They are active year-round, but mostly come out at night, nocturnal. |
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White-Footed Mouse's' Range |
| White-Footed mice are found throughout most of the eastern united states. The eastern most part of their range extends Nova Scotia in the north to Virginia in the south. As far west as Saskatchewan and extending out through eastern Mexico to southern Mexico and the Yucatan Peninsula. |
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| What the White-Footed Mouse eats |
| Their Diet varies seasonally as well as geographically and may include seeds, berries, nuts, insects, grains, fruits, and fungi. Since they do not hibernate, even in the coldest of weather they store seeds and nuts for the weather. Also some natural predators are Great Blue Heron, Blue Jay, Red Fox, Striped Skunk, Common Crow, Great Horned Owl, and Barred Owl. |
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| White-Footed Mouse life cycle |
| White-Footed Mouse has several litters of two to seven young each year. Babies then born about three weeks later blind and hairless and about the size of a jellybean. Three weeks later they develop hair and open their eyes, and no longer take milk from their mother. Then they start to follow their mother and father on nightly trips for food. If the female is already pregnant again it will leave the previous litter to have the next. Females can have first litter when only seven weeks old. And will live to be one to two years old. |
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| White-Footed Mouse Survival |
| The White-Footed Mouse needs logs, adjacent woods, and cultivated habitats. Also to survive they need to stay away from these predators, Great Blue Heron, Blue Jay, Red Fox, Striped Skunk, Common Crow, Great Horned Owl, and Barred Owl. |
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Interesting Facts |
| 1. The White-Footed Mouse won't
eat cheese.
2. The White-Footed Mouse is not endangered or threatened. 3. The White-Footed Mouse is a very good climber. 4. The White-Footed Mouse when alarmed will drum it's feet rapidly and make a drumming noise. 5. The White-Footed Mouse's' tail is half the size of it's body. 6. The White-Footed Mouse lives in the homes of other smaller mammals. |
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| The negative impact humans have on the White-Footed Mouse. |
| The negative impact humans have on the White-Footed Mouse is that my animal lives in the woods and when people cut down and ruin the forest it wrecks their homes. |
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References A Look Through A Mouse House
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Click on the link below for a table of the White-Footed Mouse's food, habitat, and predators. http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/white-footed_mouse.htm
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