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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Mesquite Mouse

For Students 4th - 8th
Mesquite Mice live in dense mesquite thickets known as bosques. Although mesquite is the dominant plant in bosques, other desert plants such as palo-verde, prickly pear, and cholla cacti, and grasses, mix with the mesquite. Learn more...