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- Title
Herbeal Feeding Behavior of the New Mexico Meadow Jumping Mouse ( Zapus hudsonius luteus).
- Authors
Wright, Greg D.; Frey, Jennifer K.
- Abstract
We report the first observations of feeding behavior by free-ranging New Mexico meadow jumping mice ( Zapus hudsonius luteus). We made observations during a radiotelemetry study of Z. h. luteus in the floodplain of the Rio Grande at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro Co., New Mexico, in 2009 and 2010. We observed Z. h. luteus eat the achenes or seeds of the order Cyperales: common threesquare ( Schoenoplectus pungens), spikerush ( Eleocharis spp.), saltgrass ( Distichlis spicata), foxtail barley ( Hordeum jubatum), Saunder's wildrye ( Elymus saundersii), Japanese brome ( Bromus japonicus), slender wheatgrass ( Elymus trachycaulus), and knotgrass ( Paspalum distichum). Mice frequently foraged 0.5-1 m above the ground in the canopy of herbaceous vegetation. Seed heads for consumption were harvested in several ways.
- Subjects
MEADOW jumping mouse; RADIO telemetry; ANIMAL radio tracking; FLOODPLAIN ecology; ANIMAL tagging; SCHOENOPLECTUS pungens; PASPALUM distichum
- Publication
Western North American Naturalist, 2014, Vol 74, Issue 2, p231
- ISSN
1527-0904
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3398/064.074.0210