On a bright summer morning a captive-bred male harvest mouse perches acrobatically in an Alsace wheat field. This species—the smallest European rodent—boasts a prehensile tail and builds a round nest that resembles a bird’s.

by J. L. Klein and M. L. Hubert

This post is posted on Wednesday 18 July 2012.
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