NACHI-KATSUURA, Wakayama Prefecture—A rodent that was rescued from a curious house cat turned out to be the first Japanese dormouse found in this town on the Kii Peninsula. The dormouse, a ...
Dormice—perhaps best known for the dormouse cameo in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and the subsequent film adaptation—are nocturnal, mouse-like rodents native to the woodlands of Africa, Asia, ...
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Should You Keep a 'Micro Squirrel' as a Pet?
Explore the care needs and challenges of owning this tiny exotic rodent. African dormice are challenging pets that require significant care, including a spacious enclosure, a varied diet, and social ...
Wildlife charity volunteer Lorna Griffiths reports on a highly successful national reintroduction programme of a once extinct dormouse..... Over the last 50 years 60% of some 3,148 UK species have ...
A hibernating dormouse curls up in the palm of a hand, blissfully unaware he has just been rescued from almost certain death in sub-zero temperatures. The tiny animal can only be held for just a few ...
Today, only one species of the spiny dormouse survives, in southern India. However, the oldest spiny dormouse in evolutionary history, a member of the rodent family, was found in sediment dating back ...
Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...
A tiny dormouse, sleepily curled in a ball, can fit in the palm of someone’s hand. But two million years ago, dormice existed which were as big as a cat. Incredibly, scientists have described a giant ...
The edible dormouse, which was introduced to the UK at the start of the 20th century after escaping from captivity, was listed in a new report on invasive foreign species, alongside the American mink, ...
The 1,000th captive-bred hazel dormouse has been released into the wild in a UK-wide reintroduction scheme for these threatened mammals. Big-eyed and famously sleepy, the dormouse is a woodland and ...
A dozy dormouse could not believe its luck when it managed to squeeze inside a bird feeder for a feast - only to fall asleep and get stuck. The nocturnal creature had been "plumping up for hibernation ...
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