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Page 1: Facts About House Mice

 

Facts About House Mice  

 

You Probably Never Knew. 

Created by Julie Villarreal

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Mice have big appetites.   

 Despite their tiny bodies (and even smaller stomachs!), mice               eat between 15 and 20 times a day. Because of their frequent                       eating habits, they prefer to build their homes near food                 sources.   

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They are little gymnasts…. 

  

Mice are good jumpers, climbers and swimmers. In fact, mice can jump a foot into the air, allowing them to easily climb up 

onto kitchen counters or into pantries to access food.  

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Mice can squeeze through openings as small as the size of a dime. 

     

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They have relatively short lifespans. In the wild, mice usually only live for about five months, mostly because of predators such as cats, snakes and foxes.

          

      

    

In a lab setting, mice can live for up to two years.

 

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A house mouse produces between 40 and

100 droppings per day.

 

Mice use urine as markers to determine where they have been. So, house mice constantly give off micro-droplets of urine as they travel around their territory every day.  

  

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A female house mouse can give

birth when they are only two

months old, and they are able to

have to up to a dozen babies

every three weeks.  

   

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References

Dr. Jim Fredericks. Tuesday, January 15, 2013. Eight Fascinating Facts You Never Knew about Mice. Retrieved from http://www.pestworld.org/news-and-views/pest-articles/articles/fascinating-facts-you-never-knew-about-mice/

 

Alicia. April 4, 2012. 12 Facts You Didn’t Know About Mice. Retrieved from http://www.rentokil.ie/blog/12­facts­about­mice/