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Deer Mouse
It's cute mammal week in morpheme land :p This little guy was about as curious about me as I was about him (or her, I guess). He let me move really quite close. He'd pop down the hole, but pop right back out and sit there at the entrance looking at me.
''Peromyscus maniculatus'' is a rodent native to North America. It is most commonly called the deer mouse, although that name is common to most species of ''Peromyscus'', and thus is often called the North American deermouse and is fairly widespread across the continent, with the major exception being the southeast United States and the far north.
Like other ''Peromyscus'' species, it is a vector and carrier of emerging infectious diseases such as hantaviruses and Lyme disease.
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Similar species: Rodents
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Uploaded Apr 19, 2015. Captured Apr 18, 2015 12:54 in Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, National Forest Development Road 49, Darrington, WA 98241, USA.
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