Northwestern deer mouse

The northwestern deer mouse, northwestern deermouse, or Keen's mouse (Peromyscus keeni) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is a species of the genus Peromyscus, a closely related group of New World mice often called "deermice".

Distribution

It is found in British Columbia in Canada and in Alaska and Washington in the United States.

History

It was named after the Rev. John Henry Keen in 1894.

Mode of nutrition

This type of rodent consumes and scatters seeds that are present in black bear scats. They also hoard seeds to store for winter survival.

References

• Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
• Peromyscus keeni, Wilson and Reeder's Mammal Species of the World (Don E. Wilson & DeeAnn M. Reeder (editors). 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3rd ed.)

Hanley, Thomas A., and Jeffrey C. Barnard. "Spatial Variation in Population Dynamics of Sitka Mice in Floodplain Forests." Journal of Mammalogy, vol. 80, no. 3, 1999, pp. 866–879. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1383255.