The Sri Lankan Vandeleuria is a small arboreal mouse known from the island’s mountains. At a highland botanical garden, five brownish, long-tailed mice were seen emerging from a tree cavity.
The observed animals were small, brownish, long-tailed mice. Five individuals emerged in sequence from one tree cavity.
In a 2023 observation, dead cypress leaves and plant matter lined a cavity in a dead tree, and five mice emerged from an upper opening. The authors considered a mother with nearly grown young a possible explanation.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.