Striped Field Mouse
Kingdom: Animalia
Characteristics that place it here:
- multicellular animals with specialized eukaryotic cells
- they rely on other organisms for nourishment
- ingest food and digest food in an internal cavity
- have their own means of locomotion
Phylum: Chordata
Characteristics that place it here :
- bilaterally symmetrical bodies ( which is the right and left side of your bodies are identical two one another.
- at some point of the life-cycle the animals have a pair of slits, gills, or pouches.( which are used to obtain oxygen in a liquid environment.)
- they also have a notcherd at some phase of their lives .
Class: Mammalia
Characteristics that place it here:
-conceive their young within the reproductive tract of the moms
-nourish their young with milk produced by the mammary glands.
-are heterodonts (that means that they have a verity of specialized teeth.)
-are endothermic( which means they are warmed blooded)
-they have hair and sweet glands
-they have a 4 chambered hart
-they also have a complex nervous system and very large brains.
Order: Rodentia
Characteristics that place it here
-their dentition is highly specialized for gnawing
-all rodents have a single pair of upper and lower incisors
-no rodent has more than one incisor in each quadrant
-as the rodent gnaws it rubs each incisor against each other which wares it away and is used as a self sharpening system
-main mussel used in chewing is called the masseter
Family: Muridea
Characteristics that place it here
-range to a few grams or kilograms in weight
-most of them have large eyes
-have powerful shortened legs
-feet are usually small, those that swim have large feet (like muskrats)
-four clawed didgits are found on each foot
-their tails have usually no hair
Genius: Apodemus
characteristics that place it here
-found in Europe (except northern Scandinavia and finland)
-also found in parts of central and south western Asia, Himalayas, northwestern Africa, British isles and nearby Islands.
-head and body length is 60-150km, tail length is 70-145mm.
Species: Striped field mouse
characteristics that place it here:
-eat roots, grains, seeds, berries, nuts, and insects.
-these mice breed many times a year they have up to six litters. (containing 6 young per litter.)
-they are very good leapers and swimmers.
-they usually die within 180meters of their birth place.
Poem: Mouse
Many little criters
Only up at night
Using little voices
Seeing with no light
Eventually taking flight
References:
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/apodemus/a._agrarius$narrative.html