Mice thrive at 6700 m, higher than any mammals were thought able to live
Survey turns up several mouse species living on Andes peaks, breaking records for the highest dwelling mammals
Few places are as inhospitable as the top of Llullaillaco, a 6700-meter volcano on the border between Chile and Argentina.
Winds howl nonstop and no plants live there; daytime temperatures never get above freezing and plummet even more come nightfall. Oxygen levels are just 40% of those at sea level, too low for mammals to live there —or so biologists thought until 3 years ago when a research team captured a live leaf-eared mouse at its summit.
Now new work shows this animal was not a fluke. The team has found other leaf-eared mice on additional volcano tops, and genomic studies of these summit dwellers and their lower elevation relatives confirm the rodents make their homes nearly 7000 meters above sea level, making them the highest dwelling vertebrate found so far. (Some birds soar higher but appear not to dwell at those elevations.)
The team has also come across five other mouse species living above 5000 meters on various mountains in the Central Andes...
Read more: https://www.science.org/content/article/mice-thrive-6700-kilometers-higher-any-mammals-were-thought-able-live
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what kind of animals do you think Gideon and Harrow would be?
i personally stand by them being a cat and mouse and they chase each other around with cartoon mallets like tom and jerry
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Mouse-eared bat
By: W. Curth
From: The Complete Encyclopedia of the Animal World
1980
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mmmhmhmmhm her ears must be soft (img oing feral)
YOU @masscared-star YOU STARTED THIS🫵🫵🫵😔 now i’m obsessed i cannot get over this LOOOOK ATTTT THE KITTYYYYYY🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
she’s probably so soft
do you think she stereotypically plays with yarn and eats mice
i bet she’s got fuzzy fur and paints her claws. i think they might work like enid’s claws do. *squeals*
i cAAAAANTTTT >///////<❤️✨✨✨✨
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so earring, right? yea they've been reworked. here's hair bubble or just bubble or cherry and tomato individually
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tagged by @carrieway to make myself in this picrew thank you for tagging me friend !!
my hair isn't this orange but this is as in between blonde/brown the picrew will let me be. this is 100% what i look like aside from the hair color even the outfit is in my closet
tagging (no pressure)
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Mouse-eared bat nursery
By: Unknown photographer
From: Wildlife Fact-File
1990s
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