Deer Mouse Eating Lupine Seeds (IMAGE)
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The native deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) consumes large volumes of lupine and beach pea seeds in California coastal sand dunes. Dear mice voyage onto the open dunes only on moonless nights. This rare photo of a baby mouse eating a lupine seed in broad daylight was taken by Washington University graduate student Steve Kroiss. Unfortunately, a mouse that risks foraging during the day is probably starving.
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Steve Kroiss/WUSTL
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