#wild mice

[grison-in-space]

golly, I am being wordy today.

Via Metafilter:

Someone on MeFi tagged me in and asked me to chime in in my capacity as a rodent person, so here were my thoughts and observations:

First thought, looking at that video: that is no house mouse. Not only is the head wrong--too narrow at the back, eyes are a bit big--but that very clear countershading is not something you generally see on wild house mice. So what kind of mouse is it? If this was in the US, I would assume it was a Peromyscus (deer mouse) species, which often gleefully invade our homes, but do they have Peromyscus in Wales? In North America, this is relevant because deer mouse species often have very elaborated burrowing and pair bonding systems, and this looks like nesting behavior off the top of my head. What sort of mouse is this? The Woodland UK Trust suggests that this is probably a wood (or field) mouse: Apodemus sylvaticus. (There are glorious big photos there which can help you see what I mean.) Okay, I don't know that much about Apodemus spp. behavior, so what do we know about their nesting behavior? Well, I chased a couple of false leads, then circled back to find out what is notable about wood mice, which is that they are known to not only navigate by the use of landmarks, but to organize their environments to place small objects around their environments in order to make navigation and orienting themselves across their large territories more effectively! So this mouse is probably irritably putting things back in place as an aid to its own memory of where everything is and where it can most effectively pilfer snacks, nest locations, or other useful mouse items within its environment. That is, the mouse wants a tidy shed for exactly the same reasons a human might want a tidy shed: so it can find things it's looking for when it wants to! Wood mice, by the way, are human commensals and quite common in Europe and the British Isles, so this is in no way a refutation of the idea that this behavior might have influenced human folklore and ideas about house spirits or similar. Certainly wood mice, like any mouse, are unlikely to turn up a bowl of milk if there's one put out for it--although neither are house cats, which would certainly prey on them.

rather delighted, so I'm sharing this more widely over here.

#mouse work #wild mice #animal behavior #apodemus sylvaticus #behavioral ecology

[bewilderbark]

day 22 - lantern mice

all aboard the mouse train

#rwartmonth #rwartmonth 2024 #rain world art month #rain world #rain world art #rain world fanart #lantern mice #saint #rw saint #slugcat #wild draws #wild draws rain world

[bethdehart]

Mousegirl May Day 5: Wild

my spooky little cryptid beastie I love herrrr (drawn on stream today!)

[ID: A sketch of an anthropomorphic mouse girl. She is hunched over a strawberry in her hands that is roughly the size of her head. She has brown fur with a lighter underside and paws. Her eyes are cartoonishly big and pupil-less, and are glowing in the dim light. One of her ears has a chunk of it missing. She is wearing rags, essentially. There is red strawberry juice on her snout, dripping like blood. She has bandages on her tail.]

#mousegirl may #mousegirl may 2023 #mousegirl #mouse #mice #rodent #cute #spooky #furry #furry art #furry fandom #furry anthro #feral #wild #my art

[venterry]

just experienced sleep paralysis for the first time but didnt make the connection right away cause i always thought it would be super distressing and scary

in my case i just woke up and heard pitter patter and rustling paper like something small was walking on my bedroom tiles and going through my project notebooks

couldnt breathe and it was impossible to move and turn on the light, but i thought i was still too sleepy so i was just mildly pissed at myself as well as the idea of something messing with my stuff!!! then i could suddenly breathe again and saw it was nothing

#think its interesting to note here that i just had a dream about some tiny shapeshifting freak who was messing with peoples heads #a small black and white cartoon bunny with some personal vendetta against amy or something #anyway so my only thoughts during this ordeal were ''omg Move already 🙄'' and ''shit is it mice?? sounds too big though and no claws'' #''sounds more like a super small toddler as if a doll came to life lolOh fuck what if its that freak from my dream that would be wild'' #dreams #<- cataloging for tags at least #venspeaks

[planeswalker-umbral]

These are combat equivalents.

#mtg #magic #magic the gathering #uploads #edh #commander #eldraine #wilds of eldraine #preview #lion #mouse #mice #spoilers #previews

[menderash]

IT'S GOMEZ'S BIRTHDAY TODAY

YOU BETTER CHEER AND CLAP FOR HIM OR IM GONNA BLOW THIS WHOLE PLACE UP

#pic after i woke him up from a luxurious nap #gomez #he got a bunch of catnip mice wrapped in tissue paper that he got to tear apart like a wild animal #and he got a can of tuna #hes happy

[angryducktimemachine]

Sherlock (the mouse) just crawled into my sleeve I'm gonna cry. He's so so trusting and curious its astounding every time. Bravest little mouse boy to ever exist.

#it's WILD!!! #I've had Hamid for almost two years now and while he's no longer skittish and will climb on my hand if he feels like it #Sherlock is on a whole other level i had him for barely three weeks and he's already so non bothered by me #Watson is a different case tho he's not having any of it sgehsgsgdhb #there's mice loose in baker street

[toffee-beans]

It’s been a hot second since I posted anything abt these guys so I decided to give them some justice<33

#The amount of serotonin these losers give me is wild #i hate (love) them #disney #mickey mouse #my art #poly mice #mortimick #oswald the lucky rabbit #Mortimer mouse #Minnie mouse #epic Mickey

[antiqueanimals]

The First Book of Mammals. Written and illustrated by Margaret Williamson. 1957.

Internet Archive

#bovids #caprids #wild sheep #bighorn sheep #wild goats #mountain goats #rodents #squirrels #mice #gophers #eulipotyphla #moles #canines #coyotes #bears #black bears #cervids #moose #felines #bobcats #Margaret Williamson

[annabelle--cane]

#wild dogs and things like that domesticated mice and rats not all of them just their feet or that my whole life could be sleep ferris whee- #(lyrics to a song) #marina marvels at life #oh but mainly losing you

[diasphoriaaa]

i'm just putting this out into the universe and idk if it'll work but Please i need some qtpoc or poc fans of dimension 20/dropout to become friends w everyone hit me upppppp

#watching starstruck and acofaf for the first time and feeling so insane yall #so fucking Wild #d20 #dropout #a starstruck odyssey #a court of fey and flowers #fantasy high #burrows end #coffin run #desi quest #of mice and murder #fhjy #dimension 20

[bewilderbark]

day 15 - spiders

dinner time

#rwartmonth #rain world art month #rain world #rain world art #rain world fanart #lantern mice #spiders #cw bugs #tw bugs #mouse #blue #pink #wild draws #wild draws rain world

[mrgnstrnx]

classic literature portrayed by sunny

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

1984 by George Orwell

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

#iasip #classic literature #it’s always sunny in philadelphia #dennis reynolds #charlie kelly #dee reynolds #mac #mac macdonald #frank reynolds #meme #always sunny #dostoevksy #george orwell #oscar wilde #crime and punishment #1984 #picture of dorian gray #agatha christie #the brothers karamazov #of mice and men #and then there were none

[embraceyourdestiny]

Brennan: Rekha, don’t feel constricted by the rules of the game, just tell me what Daisy would do to save Sylvester

Rekha: I’m gonna take a shit out a window and cushion his fall

Brennan:

#og #I fucking lvoe rekha so much #rekha shankar #brennan lee mulligan #d20 #dimension 20 #d20 omam #dimension 20 of mice and murder #of mice and murder spoilers #wild thing I have to tag

[sirsen]

Mouse AU

These first two pics are Cross and Killer. This mouse AU is based off of Sku's bitty borrowers AU. I don't want to keep taking all of Sku's ideas though, so this mouse AU branches off from Sku's beginning ideas. (Cross is a house mouse who's house burns down and he meets Killer in the woods)

I think that while Killer is trying to teach Cross how to survive through the winter, they encounter Dust, and he was also a house mouse (they can tell because he's wearing a hoodie). Then Cross would try to get help from Dust, since he clearly figured out how to survive winter.

Dust ^

Dust would be very unwilling to help (because his little brother didn't make it through their first winter in the wild, and that forever haunts him now). Cross would ask for advice, and he would tell him something like, "You want my advice? Go back to the bean houses. You won't survive one winter out here." Cross would be very distraught about that, especially since he doesn't know of any bean houses near by. Killer isn't going to give up so easily, however.

Being the annoying little rodent that he is, he would keep pestering Dust unrelentingly until he finally gives in and decides to help them just to get Killer to leave him alone XD

I think maybe Dust would warn them to stay out of a certain part of the forest. There's been a big rat roaming around, hunting and eating the mice there. This would be Horror. Maybe they would accidently stumble across Horror in the winter. Since all the mice are hidden away to hibernate through winter, Horror would have to move into other areas to hunt. This leads him to finding the little group of mice. Dust and Killer have a lot of experience evading predators, but Cross does not.

With Horror skulking around their area, winter gets a lot harder to endure. How will they look for food when there's a big rat just waiting for them to poke their little heads out?

//WARNING: blood and dead mouse past this point//

Horror's design:

#undertale #undertaleau #undertale au #mouseAU #mice #rat #house mouse #wild mouse #wild rat #my art

[zooophagous]

Aster has been crying to go into the garage ever since he caught that mouse. He doesn't even sleep in the bed with me any more just sleeps by the door waiting.

I'm sorry Aster I'm not leaving you out there to kill all day!!! It was one mouse and it's dead now!!!

#i have traps out there now that I don't want him getting into so he is disallowed #i also dont want him eating wild mice and getting sick from mouse bait or parasites #he already throws up enough just from eating his normal food