Indomalayan Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse

About this species

Habitat

Primary and secondary forest; nests in bamboo

Range

North-eastern India, southern China and Southeast Asia

The pencil-tailed tree mouse is an arboreal rodent, locally abundant but patchily distributed, found in primary and secondary forests with no preference for particular forest types. It occurs in north-eastern India, southern China including Hainan, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia and Indonesia, including Java, Sumatra and the Mentawai Islands (Wikipedia, general species account).

Like all members of its genus it builds its nest between stalks of bamboo, making a bundle of leaves and branches between the stalks and gnawing through part of the bamboo so it can enter. The mice are sociable and may share nests with others. It can suffer from deforestation and is sometimes harvested for food. The cached account gives no measurements, diet or breeding information (Wikipedia, general species account).

Description: Wildlife of Malaysia guide, Wildlife of Everywhere (wildlifeofeverywhere.com); general species information paraphrased from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)