Facts You Didn't Know About Mice

Check out our range of fun mice facts for kids. Would you like to see this animal facts? Learn about what their whiskers are for, what a mouse eats, how many species of mice there are and much more.

• Mice have a number of predators including cats, wild dogs, foxes, birds of prey, and snakes.
• In the wild, mice are herbivores that eat all kinds of fruit and grains from plants.
• Mice tails can grow as long as their bodies.
• Mice use their whiskers to sense changes in temperature and to help feel the surface they are walking along.
• Mice build very complex burrows with long entrances and many escape routes. They are very clean and tidy rodents with their burrows often having separate areas for storing food, sleeping and going to the toilet.

• A mouse eats 15 - 20 times a day. Therefore they usually build their homes close to food sources, tending to only travel up to 8 m from their burrows to find food.
• Mice are intelligent creatures with complex levels of communication, which is both vocal, often beyond the auditory range of humans, and odorous.
• It is thought that mice empathise with other mice. They are able to sense the experience of other individuals and this deeply affects how they themselves feel.
• Mice have facial expressions which communicate their mood to others.
• Mice are keen explorers. They find inventive ways of feeing satisfying their curiosity to investigate such as squeezing through tight gaps and biting through obstacles with their strong teeth. Also see tigers facts
• Mice are incredibly clean, tidy and organised. Within their intricate underground homes they have specific areas for storing food, going to the toilet, and for shelter.
• Mice like to stay close to their home and usually only venture up to 3-8m away from their nest in search of food.
• Whiskers help mice to sense smooth and rough edges, temperature change and breezes.
• Mice have great balance and can walk along very thin pieces of rope or wire. They can even scale rough vertical surfaces.
• Mice can jump down 3-4m without injuring themselves.
• The mouse is a shamanic symbol of wisdom, scrutiny, discovery and organisation.

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