Mitchell's Hopping Mouse

Mitchell's Hopping MouseThis small mouse of Australia’s dry country has a sandy to rufous back, white underside, and a dark tail tuft. It uses burrows or fallen timber and eats plant material, seeds, fungi, and insects.What does it look like?The upper fur is sandy to rufous, the underside is white, and the tail ends in a dark tuft.How does it live?This small mouse of Australia’s dry country has a sandy to rufous back, white underside, and a dark tail tuft. It uses burrows or fallen timber and eats plant material, seeds, fungi, and insects.It shelters beneath logs or in burrows and eats green plant matter, roots, seeds, fungi, and insects.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.