A mouse is a small rodent. The word mice or mouse is sometimes used to refer to any small rodent. The word mouse has no exact meaning in classification systems. There are numerous amounts of mice in the world, but for convenience they are often grouped as the Eurasian mice and the American mice. Most mice live in human habitats. Most, but not all, of the rodents called mice are members of the rodent subclass …showed first 75 words of 508 total…

…showed last 75 words of 508 total…mice are species of the genus Apodemus. They are very closely related to the house mouse and found throughout Eurasia and North Africa. The field mice are nocturnal, burrowing creatures that frequently invade gardens and houses causing destruction of valuable property. In North America, field mice are referred to as voles. South American field mice belong to the genus Akodon. There are about sixty species distributed among a wide variety of habitats, including human habitats.