Mouse Info

COMMON NAME: Mouse, House Mouse, Field Mouse
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Mus musculus
DIET:  Mice can eat many types of food such as grains, pet food pellets, crumbs found on the floor, grasses, and seeds in the wild.
YOUNG:  Baby Mice are called pups. A litter can contain 5 to 10 pups. The young Mice are ready to have their own offspring when they are 8 weeks old.
HABITAT:  Throughout the world. Outdoors, in fields and meadows, and indoors in houses, barns and other buildings.
FACTS:

• .Mice originally lived in Africa, Europe and Asia. They came to the Americas around 500 years ago with the European settlers.
• Mice do not need to drink water as their bodies can create water through the digestion of food.
• A female Mouse can have 100 pups in a year.