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Mus triton |
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Leggada triton |
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Gray-bellied Pygmy Mouse |
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Small mouse. Length: 10 cm (with a tail of 4,5 cm); weight: 10 g. Pelage is grey-brown above and greyish below. Tail is scaled. |
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Grassland and savannah woodland. |
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Nocturnal and solitary. Lives singly, in couples or in small family groups. Shelters in burrows that it digs itself, in burrows dug by other animals, under dead vegetation or under rocks. |
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Seeds and insects. |
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After a gestation period of about 19 days, females give birth to a litter of 1 to 8 young (usually 5). They are weaned after 17 days. |
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Warning :
This database was established according to official pieces of work and with the help of famous scientists. However, there might be some errors.
The vernacular names were collected in the field and in the colonial literature from the first part of the 20th century. The monks who established the first dictionaries were not necessarily informed naturalists. Therefore, errors must have been committed.
We invite everyone who could help us to improve this working tool to contact us in order to correct us and share her/his knowledge with us.
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