Meadow Mouse | Slide Mouse
They have short ears a short tail and blunt nose.
Meadow mouse. Meadow mice have a short stocky body that is brown in color. They are small and slender and contrast with woodland jumping mice because their tail is not white tipped tail and they are typically duller in color. 1 in a shoe box stuffed in an old nylon stocking sleeps the baby mouse i found in the meadow where he trembled and shook beneath a stick till i caught him up by the tail and brought him in cradled in my hand a little quaker the whole body of him trembling. The meadow jumping mouse zapus hudsonius is the most widely distributed mouse in the subfamily zapodinae.
Its range extends farther south along the atlantic coast. The preble s meadow jumping mouse zapus hudonius preblei preble s or pmjm is a small mammal approximately 9 inches in length with large hind feet adapted for jumping a long bicolor tail which accounts for 60 of its length and a distinct dark stripe down the middle of its back bordered on either side by gray. They have an overall mouse like appearance. Noun any of numerous short tailed rodents of the genus microtus and allied genera chiefly of fields and meadows in the temperate northern hemisphere.
It is the human element that makes the poem about a meadow mouse relevant. In the end it is the human element the paralyzed person on the verge of drowning helplessly in the bathtub which places the reader on the level of all things innocent hapless forsaken report reply read all 1 comments the meadow mouse score card. They can weigh between and 2 ounces. The meadow vole microtus pennsylvanicus sometimes called the field mouse or meadow mouse is a north american vole found across canada alaska and the northern united states.
Weighing less than 50 grams 1 8 ounces this stout vole is 15 to 20 cm 5 9 to 7 9 inches long including its short tail 3 to 6 cm. Its range extends from the atlantic coast in the east to the great plains west and from the arctic tree lines in canada and alaska to the north and georgia alabama arizona and new mexico to the south. Adults grow to be about 3 5 inches in length not including their tail.