The deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus), sometimes called the field mouse, is a little bigger than a house mouse. It's easily distinguishable by its deer-like color, due to dense fur that's brown on ...

Fact checked by Jillian Dara Reviewed by Amanda Rose Newton As cute as it appears to be, the gray to brown and white deer ...

A bobcat, with its characteristic reddish fur and black markings, trots across a snow-covered field in central Oregon, in the ...

White-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus), which are found in more rural settings because their natural habitats are forests and fields. Deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus), which are also found in ...

I am conducting feeding trials to determine minimum nitrogen requirements for white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus), and studying the role of dietary nitrogen on their growth and reproduction. I ...

As a humanist, Virginia Hayssen’s scholarship explores cultural bias in reproductive biology. As with other aspects of life, the words and images we use are, consciously or unconsciously, infused with ...

Rodent-borne hantaviruses are associated with two main clinical disorders in humans: hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome. Although hantavirus diseases can ...

How do we know if a species is heading towards extinction? Demographics help us understand the size, status, and behavior of populations. Broadly defined, demography is the study of the ...

The range is transcontinental, and from Alaska to southern Mexico, except for the southeastern U.S. In the Adirondacks the deer mouse is wide spread, occurring in all terrestrial habitats at all ...