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Mice
Descriptions, habitats,
and feeding information on mice.
Life Expectancy and
Sight
The life
expectancy of the average mouse in the wild is generally
short and can be calculated in weeks or months. Pet mice,
however, can live up to 3 or 5 years. They have in-built
homing instincts but are
almost certainly colour-blind, viewing their world only in
black and white.
Water
Requirements
Like most
rodents, mice need to take in little water. They produce
almost all they require under normal circumstances by
"burning" the carbohydrates in the food they eat
and using the water that is released in their bodies as a
by-product of the "burning". This metabolic
water is produced by
larger animals, including man. But to these larger
animals, it is a minor source of water as their relatively
massive bodies demand far more water than such an internal
spring can provide.
Desert species,
such as the spiny
mouse, can survive happily without any external source of
water. As an extra water conservation measure, such
species produce only limited amounts of droppings and a
highly concentrated urine. Some spiny mice can live purely
on tiny quantities of sea-water and even your ordinary
house mouse can get by almost indefinitely without
liquids.
This does
not mean that you should ever leave your tame mice without
a source of fresh, clean water! They are domesticated
varieties which may not be as hardy as their wild cousins.
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