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Scientific name: Apodemus
Sylvaticus
Adult Size: Approx 90 mm (3.54")
Adult Weight: 19g
Top Speed: 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Life Span: 1 - 2 years
Habitat: Woodland and fields
Diet: Wood mice eat seeds, green plants,
fruits and animal foods. In a mixed deciduous woodland they eat
acorns, ash and sycamore seeds for most of the winter, buds in
early spring, caterpillars, worms and centipedes in early summer
and blackberries and fungi in the autumn.
Other interesting facts: Wood mice dig
their own burrow systems, where they store food and spend the day
and where the young are born in a nest chamber, which is lined with
leaves, moss and grass.
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