🐭Eurasian harvest mouse
The harvest mouse is a small mouse native to Europe and Asia. It is typically found in fields of cereal crops, such as wheat, rice and oats, in reed beds and in other tall ground vegetation, such as long grass and hedgerows. It has reddish-brown fur with white underparts and a naked, highly prehensile tail, which it uses for climbing. It is the smallest European rodent; an adult may weigh as little as 4 grams (0.14 oz). It eats chiefly seeds and insects, but also nectar and fruit. Breeding nests are spherical constructions carefully woven from grass and attached to stems well above the ground.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.
- Body mass
- 0.01 kg
- Body length
- 0.07 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 5 years
Everything we know about the Eurasian harvest mouse
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.01 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 0.01 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.07 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass0.29 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan5 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 3.8 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length1.38 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity37 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation20 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 20 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter sizeabout 5COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 5.2AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelOmnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCrepuscular / mixedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Eurasian harvest mouse yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderRodentia
- ›familyMuridae
- ›genusMicromys
- ›speciesMicromys minutus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderRodents · Rodentia
- suborderMyomorpha
- familyMuridae
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderEuarchontoglires
- orderRodents · Rodentia
- suborderMyomorpha
- familyMuridae
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