Japanese dormouse
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Japanese dormouse ( Glirulus japonicus ) |
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The Japanese dormouse ( Glirulus japonicus ), also Japanese sleeper called, very similar to the dormouse . It reaches a head-trunk length of six and a half to eight centimeters and a tail length of four to five centimeters.
distribution
The Japanese dormouse lives in the mountain forests of Japan and is known there as Yamane ( Japanese 山鼠 , dt. " Mountain mouse " or 冬眠 鼠 , dt. " Hibernating mouse ").
Way of life
He is a tree dweller and can be found in a hollow tree or in a nest in the treetops during the day . It also hibernates in hollow trees, in the attic of a house or in a nest box. The female gives birth to three to five young in June or July, sometimes again in October. The diet consists of seeds, fruits, insects and bird eggs.
Web links
- Photo page by Dr. Werner Haberl and Kathrin Passig
- Glirulus japonicus inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: Ishii, N. & Kaneko, Y., 2008. Retrieved October 15, 2013.
literature
- Mary Ellen Holden-Musser, R. Juškaitis, GM Musser: Japanese Dormouse - Glirulus japonicus. In: Don E. Wilson, TE Lacher, Jr., Russell A. Mittermeier (Eds.): Handbook of the Mammals of the World: Lagomorphs and Rodents 1. (HMW, Volume 6) Lynx Edicions, Barcelona 2016, p. 879 , ISBN 978-84-941892-3-4 .
- Lexikon-Institut Bertelsmann (Hrsg.): The modern animal dictionary. In 12 volumes. Volume 1: A - Bis. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh, 1979, ISBN 3-570-06781-5 , pp. 298-299: Bilche.
- Philip Whitfield (ed.): The great world empire of the animals. 2000 mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians at a glance. Marshall, London 1992, ISBN 3-8247-8614-1 .