Desert pocket mouse
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The desert pocket mouse (Chaetodipus penicillatus) is a North American species of heteromyid rodent found in the southwestern United States and Mexico. True to its common name, the desert pocket mouse prefers sandy, sparsely vegetated desert. Its primary diet is seeds. Like other pocket mice, the desert pocket mouse has fur-lined cheek pouches on the outside of its mouth, which it uses to gather the seeds it finds. It also stores seeds in the underground burrows where it lives. Desert pocket mice are nocturnal, and some of them hibernate in burrows during the winter.
The mouse's breeding season is in the spring; adult females can give birth to one or more litters of two to five young during the spring and summer.
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