Rats weigh more, are longer and have thicker tails than mice. Aside from size, rats have smaller ears and produce fewer droppings (20 to 50) compared to mice (40 to 100).

The tail hair is similarly brown and white. The deer mouse ranges throughout North America, although it's more common in the ...

The tail is shorter than the combined head-body length, is paler but not white below, and does not end in a tuff of white hairs. In other respects the white-footed mouse is similar to the deer mouse.

The large hind limbs, bright colors, and long, tapered, white-tipped tail identify the woodland jumping mouse. The 115-160 mm (4.5-6.3 in), sparsely-haired tail, grayish brown above, and white below ...

Their tails are long, thin, and hairy. While timid, mice are social and territorial rodents. The most common mice in North America are the cotton mouse, western harvest mouse, white-footed mouse ...

The body of a house mouse is anywhere between 2.5 and 3.75 inches long, while its tail is typically 2.75 to 4 inches long. House mice multiply fast. Each female can have up to 35 babies a year.

Why do mice have tails? The answer to this is not as simple as you might think. New research from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) has shown that there’s more to the humble ...

Previously, the role of mice tails in maintaining balance was poorly understood and often overlooked in experiments. "While mice are crucial in neuroscience because of their likeness to us, our ...