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SpeciesRodentiaGliridae
Mammals

🐭Edible dormouse

Glis glis (Linnaeus, 1766)

Le Loir gris (Glis glis) est un petit mammifère rongeur de la famille des Gliridae. C'est la seule espèce actuelle du genre Glis. Ce loir vit en Europe et hiberne en hiver. Il y est protégé au titre de l'annexe III de la Convention de Berne.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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6
Photos
1
Measurements
13
vs you
≈ 1/440th of your weight
Also called
Edible Commoner Dormouse, edible dormouse, fat dormouse, Fat Dormouse, Squirrel-tailed Dormouse
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
0.14 kg
Body length
0.18 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
8.99 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Edible dormouse

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.14 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 0.13 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.18 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Brain mass
1.9 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
8.99 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 8.7 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
3.16 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
339 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
28 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 25 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 5
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 4AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Omnivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Home range
0 km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
137 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.1 Laverage
Details ↓

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 Edible dormouse yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderRodentia
  5. ›familyGliridae
  6. ›genusGlis
  7. ›speciesGlis glis
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderRodents · Rodentia
  3. subfamilyGlirinae
  4. genusGlis
All 15 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderEuarchontoglires
  11. orderRodents · Rodentia
  12. suborderSciuromorpha
  13. familyGliridae
  14. subfamilyGlirinae
  15. genusGlis
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More about the Edible dormouse

Closest relative on this site
🐭 Hazel dormouse — last shared an ancestor ≈ 27 million years ago.
What it eats
seeds and grain60%
fruit40%
In other languages
Siebenschläfer (de), Popielica szara (pl), plch velký (cs), Glis glis (es), Glis glis (fr), Relmuis (nl) … and 23 more languages

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