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As part of an ongoing 12-year study of California ground squirrels at Briones Regional Park in Contra Costa County, researchers last summer watched as squirrels began to chase — and eat — voles, a cousin of field mice.
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Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
These small brown rodents look similar to field mice and have small ears and short tails.
—Melinda Myers, Journal Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2024
Timothy Chalamet is a field mouse who lives in an oversize mushroom, but Timothée Chalamet plays him in the Wes Anderson movie adaptation of his life.
—Vulture, 7 Dec. 2023
The bulk of a coyotes’ diet consists of rodents, mainly field mice, rats, chipmunks, and ground squirrels.
—Hampton Bourne, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2023
Voles look like mice with shorter tails and are also called field mice.
—oregonlive, 24 June 2023
This new episode imagines that a field mouse is heavily into non-fungible tokens and that a bear is actually a divorced gym teacher.
—Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2021
Often mammals appear to host more than one species, with some poor field mouse housing four mite species on its face alone.
—Michelle Trautwein, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2014
The culprit, a field mouse, scrambles through, and then down the wall, over the master's boot.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 June 2021
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Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
These small brown rodents look similar to field mice and have small ears and short tails.
—Melinda Myers, Journal Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2024
Timothy Chalamet is a field mouse who lives in an oversize mushroom, but Timothée Chalamet plays him in the Wes Anderson movie adaptation of his life.
—Vulture, 7 Dec. 2023
The bulk of a coyotes’ diet consists of rodents, mainly field mice, rats, chipmunks, and ground squirrels.
—Hampton Bourne, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2023
Voles look like mice with shorter tails and are also called field mice.
—oregonlive, 24 June 2023
This new episode imagines that a field mouse is heavily into non-fungible tokens and that a bear is actually a divorced gym teacher.
—Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2021
Often mammals appear to host more than one species, with some poor field mouse housing four mite species on its face alone.
—Michelle Trautwein, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2014
The culprit, a field mouse, scrambles through, and then down the wall, over the master's boot.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 June 2021
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“Field mouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/field%20mouse. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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