Meadow Jumping Mouse

Meadow Jumping MouseThe meadow jumping mouse is a small rodent with long hind feet and a long tail. It favors moist grassland and wetland edges, eats seeds, fruit, and insects, and hibernates in winter.What does it look like?It is small and slender, with hind feet longer than its front feet and a tail longer than its body. Its back is brownish and its underside is pale.How does it live?The meadow jumping mouse is a small rodent with long hind feet and a long tail. It favors moist grassland and wetland edges, eats seeds, fruit, and insects, and hibernates in winter.It uses moist grasslands and grassy edges of streams, ponds, and marshes. Seeds are its main food, with fruit and insects also eaten; it hibernates in an underground nest through winter.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.