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Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse An Animal Report Katie La Date: March 18
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The Salt Marsh Mouse has a dark brown coat. The belly and sides are pinkish, cinnamon to yellowish brown. Its body length ranges from 2.75 to 3.0 inches. The tail can be equal to the body or even longer. The body weight ranges from 0.3 to 0.5 ounces.
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The mice like to live in nest. They can live in the bird nests or make their own. Most of their nests are found in marshes where there is a pickle weed field. It also likes shady slopes and grassy places.
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These marsh mice a nocturnal. At night it feeds on a pickle weed plant and drinks salty water It eats seeds, fruits, grain, and green vegetation. In the winter, it eats fresh green grass, and for the rest of the year is pickle weed and slat grass.
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Body System Some daily movement of individuals from pickle weed marsh to higher grasslands occurs in a spring and summer or otherwise as a plant cover affords to escape from predators.
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Survival The Salt Marsh Mouse is an endangered mammal. The mouse adapts over time to change their environment by variations in genetic make-up. Genetic variability allows animals with appropriate genes to respond to change in the environment, like temperature fluctuations
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Conclusion The Salt Marsh Mouse is a small primarily nocturnal rodent found in coast salt marsh of San Francisco Bay and its tributaries. The rodent prefers a tidal costal salt marshes stands of pickleweed marshes are also used to, but only when new grass growth affords suitable cover.
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