Striped mouse

Striped mouse

Striped mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio) on the cover of the August edition of Behaviour

Striped mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio) on the cover of the August edition of Behaviour
My photo and the accompanying paper (see List of publications) were published in this issue.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Summary: Anstee (1996)

The western pebble-mound mouse Pseudomys chapmani is a small conilurine rodent found throughout the Pilbara region of Western Australia. They construct mounds out of pebbles gathered from the surrounding areas. At any given time, not all mounds in a region might be occupied. Therefore, Anstee (1996) devised a scoring system, using the external features of the mound, to assess the likelihood that mounds are inhabited by mice. He found that mounds containing mice had a significantly higher index score than mounds without mouse and suggests that this scoring system is an effective predictor of P. chapmani presence within mounds.

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