Dormouse Snoring – Video
OMG adorable! Here’s a video of a hibernating dormouse. It’s snoring!
From YouTube:
Don’t worry, he’s okay! He’s just sleeping.
Dormice hibernate in the winter in nests that they make hidden away on the ground. In Britain the dormouse may spend up to 1/3 of its life in hibernation. Dormice usually enter hibernation at the time of the first frost, when nearly all food is gone. Dormice rely upon fat reserves gathered in the summer and autumn, and during hibernation they loose about a quarter of their body weight.
Surrey Wildlife Trust Mammal Project Officer, Dave Williams, took this lovely footage of a dormouse in torpor.
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They don’t normally snore like this, but don’t worry. This one was fine really and in expert hands.
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LOL Who would have known that mice can snore like that! Their scream is horrible when they are in fear or pain. I use a live mouse trap around my house that catches them and then I take it down the hill in back of my house and release them. Once in awhile, they get trapped in it wrong and it injures them or kills them which is most unfortunate. That is when I have heard them scream and it is pitiful to hear. Very sad!
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