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 ...

Betsy Arakawa died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare rodent-spread disease with a mortality rate up to 50% in the ...

Unlike the deer mouse which it closely resembles, the white-footed mouse’s fur is not soft and luxuriant, and the general color of the back and sides is a reddish or orangish, not grayish, brown. A ...

The native deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) consumes large volumes of lupine and beach pea seeds in California coastal sand dunes. Dear mice voyage onto the open dunes only on moonless nights.

Hantavirus can infect humans through contact with rodents – most commonly through the deer mouse in the United States – especially when exposed to their urine, droppings and saliva ...