A small, white-footed mouse with bicolor tail, white on the bottom and dark on the top. The ears usually are shorter than it's hind foot, and they are prominent and leaflike. The upperparts of it's body are bright fulvous or brownish, intermixed with dusky, The belly and feet are white. Measurements average: total length, 170 mm; tail, 81 mm; hind foot, 20 mm; ear, 18 (12-20) mm. Weight, 15-32 g. These mice occupy a variety of habitats, ranging from mixed forests to grasslands to open, sparsely vegetated deserts. Mice of this group seem to be poor climbers and live close to or on the ground. They are almost strictly nocturnal. They live in underground burrows, in brush piles, or in crevices among rocks. Deer mice do not hibernate. Their winter activities may include taking up quarters in a pile of logs, from which they venture nightly in search of food.
A small, white-footed mouse with bicolor tail, white on the bottom and dark on the top. The ears usually are shorter than it's hind foot, and they are prominent and leaflike. The upperparts of it's body are bright fulvous or brownish, intermixed with dusky, The belly and feet are white. Measurements average: total length, 170 mm; tail, 81 mm; hind foot, 20 mm; ear, 18 (12-20) mm. Weight, 15-32 g. These mice occupy a variety of habitats, ranging from mixed forests to grasslands to open, sparsely vegetated deserts. Mice of this group seem to be poor climbers and live close to or on the ground. They are almost strictly nocturnal. They live in underground burrows, in brush piles, or in crevices among rocks. Deer mice do not hibernate. Their winter activities may include taking up quarters in a pile of logs, from which they venture nightly in search of food.