Sentences with phrase «by deer mice»

Of 44 predation events captured on infrared video camera, 24 were by deer mice.

Hantavirus, carried by deer mice, has killed two people at Yosemite National Park in California — 10,000 campers have been warned to watch for symptoms

Not exact matches

On the way, they encounter a fox, a raccoon, a field mouse, and a deer, all depicted in beautiful watercolor scenes by Schoenherr.

When the pale - coloured Sand Hills of Nebraska formed, about 10,000 years ago, they were colonised by dark - furred deer mice, which would have stood out vividly against the sand.

In eastern U.S. oak forests, defoliation by gypsy moths and the risk of Lyme disease are determined by interactions among acorns, white - footed mice, moths, deer, and ticks.

Deer mice carry hantavirus, a viral infection spread by the critters» urine and droppings.

They have determined this not by looking at deer — which are widely assumed to be the main carrier — but the mice population.

Leptospirosis is a contagious bacterial disease carried by wild animals such as deer, raccoons, mice, and cows.

There are several kinds of tapeworm the most common being Dipylidium Caninum this tapeworm uses fleas as the intermediate host whereas Taenia and Echinococcus which are less common are contracted by contact with either rodents such as rats, squirrels, mice and birds or larger livestock like Deer, Sheep, and Horses.

Ticks are widespread, and travel by attaching themselves to mice, deer, birds, and rodents of all kinds.

By Justin Calderon Button - faced gibbons lankily toss themselves through the canopy, a petite mouse deer gnaws at a bush below, and Betek — the chief and shaman of his tribe — methodically whittles another blow dart to such slender precision it nearly becomes invisible to the eye.

For example, monitoring data shows that deer mouse densities on San Miguel Island are strongly limited by the endangered island fox (Urocyon littoralis littoralis), whereas on Santa Barbara Island, where there are no foxes, mouse densities are much more variable.

It is distinguishable from the island deer mouse by its smaller head, body size and it's relatively much longer tail, including the grooves on the anterior face of the upper incisors.

Climate and predation (by island foxes on some islands, and owls on others) are the most important factors determining island deer mouse population fluctuations.

Biologists also say they took pains to offset the possible damage by staggering the poison drop over two years, trapping and removing many birds of prey and capturing more than 1,000 deer mice and then reintroducing them after the eradication program.

The deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) is represented by a different endemic subspecies on each of the 8 islands (Ashley and Wills 1987; Gill 1980; Pergams and Ashley 2000).

One such event was probably by rafting to Santarosae Island before that island broke up, as indicated by genetic similarity among deer mouse subspecies in the northern Channel Islands, and later colonizations could have resulted from unintentional transport by Native Americans (Ashley and Wills 1987).