The white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) is a rodent native to North America from southern Canada to the southwestern United States and Mexico. [1] It is a species of the genus Peromyscus , a closely related group of New World mice often called "deermice".

The white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) is a rodent native to North America from Ontario, Quebec, Labrador, and the Maritime Provinces (excluding the island of Newfoundland) to the southwestern United States and Mexico.

White-footed mice have keen eyesight, hearing, and sense of smell. They use their vibrissae (whiskers) as touch receptors. A distinctive behavior of white-footed mice is drumming on a hollow reed or a dry leaf with their front paws.

About White-footed Mice. What do white-footed mice look like? The white-footed mouse ranges in color from grayish-brown to reddish-brown on its dorsal side and face while its ventral side and legs are white. Its average mass is 0.81 oz but can range from 0.5 oz to 1 oz.

White-footed mice live in a variety of habitats, but are most often found in woody or brushy areas. They are the most abundant rodent in mixed forests and edges of agricultural fields in the United States.

White-footed mice are most abundant in the Adirondack lowlands along the periphery of the Park in brushy, grassy fields, and especially in the drier forests and woodlands which support oaks and hickories.

2005年11月26日 · The white-footed mouse is similar in appearance to the deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus). The main distinguishing characteristic is that the tail of the white-footed mouse is shorter (slightly less than half the total length) and is indistinctly bicolored, whereas the tail of the deer mouse is longer (slightly more than half the total length ...

White-footed mice have keen eyesight, hearing, and sense of smell. They use their vibrissae (whiskers) as touch receptors. A distinctive behavior of white-footed mice is drumming on a hollow reed or a dry leaf with their front paws.

2022年1月23日 · White-footed mice are omnivores, and their diet consists of seasonally available seeds, berries, acorns, insects, stored grains, and fungi. As non-hibernators, white-footed mice must cache food for the winter.

White-footed mice have no inflated auditory bullae and the rostrum is not inflated. Leucopus skull is relatively long for the genus, usually greater than 27 mm, and contains an infraorbital canal, foramina on the premaxilla and has only three cheek teeth, the first being the largest.