The dormouse is a small mammal to fifteen centimeters (sexual dimorphism?) Without the tail and about 60 to 140 grams. The black around the eyes (giving a masked bandit), the contrast between the ventral white coat and gray-brown back, the long tail end, two-color enlarged to be easy. It is part of an ancient group of rodents (the myoxidae) and has both incisors for biting and teeth of carnivorous. This is an animal, both terrestrial and arboreal nocturnal habits to the day sleeping in a nest hidden in a tree hole, a former bird nest (or a nest box) or building human and down to the ground for food . Like other myoxidae (Loire, Muscardini) European it hibernates and comes into full lethargy during the winter (disturbed by mistake it does not wake up). Its diet includes fruit (can be seen easily on a summer evening in fruit trees) berries and seeds but also various insects or other small animals smaller than him. It is not uncommon, especially during the season, to see a dormouse undertake devour one of its rivals unlucky. This cannibalism is also observed, repeatedly, out of hibernation. In general, females have only one staff per year from 2 to 7 small. The coupling happens in April-May, gestation lasts 3 weeks. Sexual maturity is reached after a year. Longevity is 3 to 4 years in the wild. At birth, small measuring 4 cm tail off, and roses are blind (closed eyelids), their cries are acute (ultrasound) and their mobility amazing. Il est possible, It is possible, if the mother dies, to replace it by a steady supply of conventional milk (cow) previously set at room temperature or barely warm, with a syringe, three times a day . By experience, the kitten milk in infancy is not necessarily appropriate, but opinions differ. It is important not CHANGE OF MILK. The distribution is greatly facilitated by cooperation obvious. A gray-down clear rapidly developing and growing force in equal measure. The first obvious sign is distinctive in the eye contour, still closed, that adorned a black drag characteristic of the species

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