Sentences with phrase «field mice»

I had a similar reaction a few weeks ago when my cat brought in a live field mouse for me to play with.

After feeding on an infected field mouse, a host deer tick will attach itself to a deer or dog before being introduced to a human host.

They are field mice looking for a warm place.

Ethereum is second generation blockchain tech, and introduces extra functionality — a computing environment that can be programmed to make smart contracts and also other cryptographic tokens (which kind of make Ethereum the daddy of other «coins» which we see propagating like field mice).

How do field mice sever blades of grass?

(In fact, the Japanese field mouse, a popular seed carrier, noticed these fruits, but it did not try to eat them.)

In periods where drought, food shortages or other conditions forced hunter - gatherers to relocate more often, the populations of house mice and field mice reached a balance similar to that found among modern Maasai herders with similar mobility patterns.

The analysis revealed that human mobility influenced competitive relationships between two species of mice — the house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus) and a short - tailed field mouse (M. macedonicus)-- that continue to live in and around modern settlements in Israel.

Founded and curated by Sigurður «Siggi» Hjartarson, the Icelandic Phallological Museum houses four decades worth of mammalian members, from a petite field mouse to the colossal sperm whale, and every «thing» in between.

He remembers Stillman uncovering a family of field mice who'd claimed one of the big sofas in the sitting room.

«When I was just three years old, I lived in Westport Connecticut and I would find these dead field mice outside all the time.

Two years ago we had a huge infestation of field mice right around this time of year who flooded the house next door.

If you really want to spoil your cat, consider getting her a Holiday Field Mouse and / or a Holiday Big Sky Mouse as well.

The town is being develop very quickly, and you can experience monkeys hanging out on the trees outside the house, at the same time a couple of small field mice made their way inside the house, this being a huge no no in the States but taking our surroundings into consideration is to be expected.

The peacock and striped field mouse came to say good morning.

It's usually safer to define your game in terms of another game, e.g. «Well, it's like Call of Duty, but with field mice instead of soldiers.»

Finally, Moss is a mystical adventure starring a tiny field mouse.

Are you seeing any long - clawed field mice or the like?

We do get the odd little field mouse, but I like to try and catch them and release them back into the surrounding paddocks......... my husband and boys always laugh at my tender heart as they assure me that the little mice turn right around and head back to our nice warm house........

This grey brown classic takes its characterful name from the fawny colour of the British field mouse.

Between them, they quartered the field in front of my home, flushing out field mice for each other and often sharing the catch.

Underneath the front clamshell, the engine appears to have served as a warm and dry home for a family of field mice.

If Weenie hadn't died he'd be purring beside her, his ears flattened against his skull and his tail curled like a hook around her bare ankle, his eyes slitted across the dark lawn at the restless, echo - ranging world of night creatures that was invisible to her: snail - trails and cobwebs, glassy - winged flies, beetles, and field mice and all the little wordless things struggling in squeaks or chirps or silence.

«He's like a field mouse out there,» says Nebraska defensive tackle Jim Skow.

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

These pellets work very well even with desert rats and field mice that might make their way onto your property.

An extremely distant cousin, the largest mammal in existence at the time, is about the size of a field mouse, and it isn't likely to be observed because it comes out of hiding only at night.

So a creature such as a field mouse, whose food is randomly distributed, needn't evolve complex foraging strategies, whereas one such as a lion, whose food sources are indicated by clues in the environment, will have an advantage if it can use sophisticated mental abilities such as planning.

A dog follows a scent trail or a field mouse seeks cover after a hawk's shadow passes overhead.

A PowerPoint to facilitate a field mouse art activity is also included.

It darts in and out of corners like a field mouse, but it does needs more poke.

Since wolves also consume gazelles, field mice and marmots who, left unfettered, would eat the grasslands barren, the Mongol herders view them as performing a service, culling their numbers by hunting only when absolutely necessary.

Training a dog to track consists of teaching them to persistently follow the track we want them to follow and not the track of a field mouse, rabbit, or another scent that catches their interest.

Paratenic hosts, such as earthworms and field mice, ingest infective eggs and become carriers of larvae that arrest in somatic tissues.

- Wounded critters, field mice, birds, etc., squeak when they are wounded, which makes them easy to track and find.

Hordes of ticks, fleas, cockroaches, rats and field mice will not.

Growing up in a house full of rescue animals — dogs, cats, hamsters, field mice, bunnies, reptiles & a Moloccan Cockatoo --

Through recent projects like Kitty Cams at the University of Georgia, in which cameras are attached to the collars of indoor - outdoor pet cats to track their activities, not only have cats been filmed preying on cardinals, frogs and field mice, they have also been shown lapping up antifreeze and sewer sludge, dodging under moving cars and sparring violently with much bigger dogs.

She had somehow picked up a fluke — one found in snails / tadpoles / field mice and more commonly found in outdoor cats, not dogs.

Field mice, lizards, and other critters cats find outside are fun to catch, even if they don't need them as food.

There are insectivorous bats, raccoons, coatimundis (quash), rats and field mice, paca (Agouti paca, locally the gib nut).

Whitehaven's sand is so soft it squeaks like a field mouse as your toes sink into it.

Well - known favourite, Whitehaven Beach boasts sand is so soft it squeaks like a field mouse as your toes sink into it.