Mouse Facts
Mouse Facts
2. A baby mouse is called a pinky, or a kitten.
3. To this day some people believe that fried mice or mouse pie is a cure for bedwetting!
4. A female mouse is called a doe.
5. A male mouse is called a buck.
6. Mice have tails that are as long as their bodies.
7. Some mice don't have any hair at all.
8. The word mouse comes from an ancient 'Sanskrit' word meaning "thief."
9. Mickey Mouse was born in 1928.
10. The average mouse lives only 1-2 years.
11. A full-grown mouse weighs between 1/2 and 1 ounce.
12. In Ancient Greece, the God Apollo was sometimes called Apollo Smintheus, which means Apollo the Mouse. To honor him, white mice were kept in Apollo's temples under the altar.
13. Some ancient cultures had a lot of respect for mice. In Egypt a cooked mouse was used to cure a variety of ills including stomachaches.
14. You should NEVER pick a mouse up by its tail.
15. Mice are constant eaters - and will eat almost anything.
16. The first mice to arrive in North America arrived as stowaways on ships from Europe.
17. Like all rodents, mice have teeth that never stop growing. Mice teeth can grow up to 5 inches a year.
18. Colonies of mice have been found thriving in the supplies used on polar expeditions.
19. Mouse tails have scales that help with climbing.
20. Mice can transmit salmonellosis (bacterial food poisoning) when food is contaminated with infected mouse feces.
21. Mice also transmit rickettsial pox, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, leptospirosis, ratbite fever, tularemia, dermatitis, and hantavirus.
22. According to some cultures, if you dream about mice, you are going to die soon.
23. Ancient Jewish folklore forbade the eating of any mouse-chewed food because it could cause forgetfulness or a sore throat.
24. Some believed that the devil came on board Noah's Ark in the form of a mouse and gnawed a hole in it to make it sink.
25. In ancient Egypt, a cooked mouse was used to cure a variety of ills including stomach aches.
26. The Roman writer Pliny recommended mouse ashes mixed with honey to cure earaches.
27. Cooked mice were once used to treat whooping cough, smallpox, measles and many other ailments.
28. Some people believe that fried mice or mouse pie is a cure for bedwetting.
29. Pet mice are available in at least 70 different colors and combinations.
30. There are at least two popular music acts named after mice: Modest Mouse and Mouse on Mars.
31. An adult mouse has a heart rate of 632 beats per minute (plus or minus 51 bpm).
32. Mouse urine gives a fluorescent glow that can be detected using a black light
33. Mice belong to the family Muridae, which contains 730 species, 150 genera, and 5 subfamilies.
34. The Romans called rats Mus maximus (big mouse) and mice Mus minimus (little mouse)
35. In Spanish, "raton" stands for mouse, and "rata" stands for rat.
37. Mice are considered the third most successful mammal on Earth; after humans and rats.
38. Mice have between 20,000 and 25,000 genes, the same as humans.
39. Mouse tails have scales that help during climbing.
40. Contrary to popular belief, mice are exceptionally clean.
41. Zebra mice actually exist: they have stripes marking their fur.
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