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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: San Joaquin Pocket Mouse

For Students 4th - 8th
The San Joaquin Pocket Mouse vocalizes with low grunts, growls, and squeals, and communicates aggression by tooth-chattering. This species will consume earthworms and soft-bodied insects, but its diet is mainly very tiny seeds of...