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Mount Tapulao forest mouse

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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.

Facts
Activity Pattern
Nocturnal 1
Body Size
60 1
Body Size
84 1
Classification
Diet
Granivore 1
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Cloud Forest, Biomes
Source Mount Tapulao forest mouse (Wikipedia)
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Source Mount Tapulao forest mouse (Wikipedia)Lead, range
Quote, Lead, range
endemic to the Mount Tapulao area in the Philippines
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1. Mount Tapulao forest mouse (Wikipedia)
  • 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
  • Lead, range
    endemic to the Mount Tapulao area in the Philippines
  • In Biome: Cloud Forest, Ecology, habitat
    old growth cloud forests
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