silky pocket mouse การใช้
- Abandoned pocket gopher mounds are often tunnelled by the silky pocket mouse.
- Morgart observed a white-tailed antelope squirrel capturing and eating a silky pocket mouse.
- The silky pocket mouse eats seeds, succulent parts of plants and nuts, and carries food in its cheek pouches.
- When it moves fast, the silky pocket mouse proceeds with short, kangaroo-like bounds, but at slower speed it walks.
- The silky pocket mouse has a home range that extends to a distance of about 60 meters ( 200 ft ) from its burrow, with males often having larger ranges than females.
- The silky pocket mouse often uses a burrow excavated by the banner-tailed kangaroo rat ( " Dipodomys spectabilis " ), whether it is occupied or empty, or sometimes shares a burrow made by a Phillips'kangaroo rat ( " Dipodomys phillipsii " ).