Chinese Pygmy Dormouse

Chinese Pygmy DormouseThe Chinese Pygmy Dormouse is a small rodent recorded in the mountains of southeastern China. It has small eyes and a tuft at the end of its tail, and uses ultrasonic calls to move in darkness.What does it look like?Its back is medium gray and its underside grayish white. The tail ends in a brush-like tuft of long hair; its eyes are small and its whiskers long.How does it live?The Chinese Pygmy Dormouse is a small rodent recorded in the mountains of southeastern China. It has small eyes and a tuft at the end of its tail, and uses ultrasonic calls to move in darkness.T. cinereus is reported from humid ecotones between subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest and bamboo groves, using thick leaf litter, rock crevices and tree hollows. In darkness, experiments confirmed that it uses ultrasonic calls to avoid obstacles.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.