Shooters will be at the forefront of conserving the UK's protected dormouse population thanks to a grant of # 84,000 secured by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). (politics.co.uk)
Panyutina et al. examined the rare Vietnamese dormouse (Typhlomys chapensis), an arboreal rodent with vestigial eyes, and found evidence that they not only use echolocation for orientation, but do so to navigate complex arboreal environments with no visual assistance, because their retinae are nonfunctional. (science.sciencemag.org)
The tree - climbing Vietnamese pygmy dormouse seems to make ultrasonic calls to guide its motion. (newscientist.com)