While 10 subspecies of southern grasshopper mouse were recognized in 1975, ITIS currently recognizes 7 subspecies.
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Southern Grasshopper Mouse
Southern grasshopper mice are omnivorous with 75-90% of their diet consisting of scorpions, grasshoppers, beetles, small vertebrates, and even other rodents.
Southern Grasshopper Mouse
The southern grasshopper mouse is covered with fine, dense, gray or pink-cinnamon fur with a distinct white underside.
Southern Grasshopper Mouse
Southern grasshopper mice are largely nocturnal and active year-round.
Southern Grasshopper Mouse
The southern grasshopper mouse is terrestrial and a good climber.
Southern Grasshopper Mouse
Due to their territorial, cannibalistic nature, southern grasshopper mice are solitary animals.
Southern Grasshopper Mouse
The southern grasshopper mouse inhabits temperate shrubland and desert habitats and prefers xeric areas at low elevations with low-moderate shrub cover.
Southern Grasshopper Mouse
The southern grasshopper mouse is a small, robust species that averages 9-13 cm. in length with a tail that is longer than half the length of its head and body.
Southern Grasshopper Mouse
The southern grasshopper mouse is found in the western and southwestern United States and in northern Mexico of North America.
Southern Grasshopper Mouse Trivia
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Southern Grasshopper Mouse
Relative brain size in southern grasshopper mice tends to vary with food preferences as it's smallest in folivores and largest in generalists.
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Southern Grasshopper Mouse
The southern grasshopper mouse is also known as the scorpion mouse due to its diet consisting mostly of arthropods such as grasshoppers and scorpions.
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Free-For-All: White-Nosed Coati
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White-Nosed Coati
The white-nosed coati population in the United States is suspected to be losing genetic contact with populations further south, potentially leading to extirpation in the United States.
White-Nosed Coati
White-nosed coatis defend themselves using their bent forefeet claws and sharp canines.
White-Nosed Coati
The white-nosed coati is susceptible to canine distemper and rabies.
White-Nosed Coati
Individual white-nosed coatis may live up to 14 years of age.
White-Nosed Coati
White-nosed coatis will only occasionally cause crop damage and rarely take small farm animals.
White-Nosed Coati
White-nosed coati adult body size is reached by 15 months and females sexually mature a year faster than males, maturing at 2 years.
White-Nosed Coati
The white-nosed coati's current population trend is decreasing due to major population declines in the 1960s for unknown reasons.
White-Nosed Coati
White-nosed coatis are sometimes kept as pets.
White-Nosed Coati
When hunting, white-nosed coatis will force vertebrates to the ground with their paws and kill by a bite to the head.
White-Nosed Coati
The white-nosed coati's coat color and muzzle markings are the only physical characteristics dissimilar from its relatives the South American and Western mountain coatis.
White-Nosed Coati
The white-nosed coati is hunted throughout its range for skin and food, but its fur has no value.
White-Nosed Coati
After 5 months, mother white-nosed coatis will rejoin their group with their young and allow the male to meet his offspring.
White-Nosed Coati
The white-nosed coati is sexually dimorphic in body size as males are much larger than females.
White-Nosed Coati
After a gestation period of 77 days, female white-nosed coatis give birth to 2-7 dependent young weighing 100-180 grams.
White-Nosed Coati
The white-nosed coati is locally threatened as a result of ongoing large-scale habitat loss and legal hunting and is hunted by several predators including cats, boas, and large predatory birds.
White-Nosed Coati
About 3-4 weeks before giving birth, female white-nosed coatis will depart the band to build a nest, often in a palm tree.
White-Nosed Coati
Although the white-nosed coati is classified as "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List, it is considered and endangered species in New Mexico and is given total legal protection there.
White-Nosed Coati
The white-nosed coati's snout is long and pointed with a flexible end.