Wednesday, September 21, 2011

The Amazing Life of the Harvest Mouse

 A harvest mouse seems to look directly into the camera while balancing on ears of wheat

These pictures give a rare insight into the secret lives of tiny harvest mice (Micromys minutus). Photographers Jean-Louis Klein and Marie-Luce Hubert spent one year photographing the adorable little creatures in a project that saw them released from captivity into the wild
A harvest mouse balancing between two stalks of grass in a field in Alsace, France

 
A female harvest mouse and her young (aged 5 days) in a nest


 A harvest mouse female regurgitating to feed her cubs (aged 10 days old)
 a mouse swimming in the water
 A young harvest mouse on an ear of wheat
 A harvest mouse drinking the dew on a blade of grass
 Three young harvest mice link tails while sitting on a branch
 ...and another young mouse uses his tail to hang off theirs
 A female harvest mouse carrying a baby to a new nest
 A harvest mouse peers out from a nest
 A harvest mouse balancing between two stalks of grass in Alsace, France, holds a grasshopper between its front paws
 A harvest mouse female pushing a male on a branch

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