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Woodmouse

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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