The Mount Tapulao forest mouse (Apomys brownorum) is a forest mouse endemic to the Mount Tapulao area in the Philippines. According to the Wikipedia article that serves as this entry's source, it is named for the American zoologist Barbara Elaine Russell Brown and her husband Roger Brown. It is the smallest species in its genus, weighing 60 to 84 grams, with long, dense, soft, dark brown fur above, darker gray fur below and a bicolored tail. It lives in old growth cloud forests and regenerating secondary forests at about 2024 metres, with a lower limit between 1690 and 2024 metres. It eats seeds and invertebrates such as earthworms and is nocturnal. The article says it is unknown how chromium mining of the habitat affects the species.
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Source Mount Tapulao forest mouse (Wikipedia)Lead, rangeQuote, Lead, range
endemic to the Mount Tapulao area in the Philippines
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Behavior, activity
It is nocturnal.
Behavior, diet
The mouse eats seeds
Anatomy and physiology, lower weight
weighing 60-84 grams
Anatomy and physiology, upper weight
weighing 60-84 grams
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endemic to the Mount Tapulao area in the Philippines
In Biome: Cloud Forest, Ecology, habitat
old growth cloud forests
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