Rats have always been a kind of animal that people hate, whether in the city or in the countryside, people basically chase and fight rats when they see them. Especially in the countryside, there are many pejorative proverbs related to rats, such as "a mouse spoils a pot of porridge", "rats can't keep overnight food", "rats look at the warehouse, see the light" and so on.
In addition, rats also steal food, bite human property, but also persecute crops and spread a variety of diseases, so rats are hated by farmers and friends, the so-called "rats cross the street, everyone shouts and beats" is not a lie, so this rat has also become the first of the four pests.
However, although the rat is annoying, its brothers and sisters are loved by people, and the more famous ones are bamboo rats, hamsters, squirrels, etc., which have either become delicious on people's tables or have become people's favorite pets, which is much more moist than the days when rats are beaten every day.
In recent years, there is another kind of rat that has become a rare pet, which is the "sleeping mouse". From the name of the sleeping mouse, you can see the characteristics of this rat, yes, it just likes to sleep, and its ability to sleep is also outstanding among all animals, the general animal sleeps the longest, that is, the 3 to 4 months during hibernation. This sleeping mouse is different, its whole life is either sleeping or on the way to sleep.
There are relevant data records that sleeping rats in the spring, autumn, winter this about 9 months, are in a state of hibernation, even if there is no hibernation in summer, it is a big sleep all day, only hungry will come out to forage, that is to say, sleeping rats spend three-quarters of their lives in sleep.
To know that the sleeping mouse life expectancy is only 5 years, there are 4 years spent on sleep, it can be seen how much it loves to sleep, and the sleeping mouse is also famous for snoozing.
Although the sleeping mouse looks exactly like a mouse, it actually has nothing to do with the mouse, it is actually an animal under the suborder Squirrel, which is distributed in Europe, Asia and Africa, and there are 2 species in China, one is the forest sleeping mouse, one is the Sichuan hairy tail sleeping mouse, the usually said sleeping mouse refers to the forest sleeping mouse, mainly living in china's rural mountains in the coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forest, dwarf mountain forest, evergreen bushes.
Before the author also said, sleeping rats love to sleep, the actual sleeping rats not only love to sleep, but also especially able to sleep, it will not eat and move in hibernation, breathing almost stops, the body becomes stiff, and any sound in the outside world can not wake it up, it can be said that thunder can not move, so sleeping rats often starve to death in sleep.
The reason for this situation is also related to the habits of sleeping mice, generally animals hibernate, will store the food during hibernation for winter, and sleeping rats do not store any food, but try to eat as much as possible to store fat for winter, the weight of the general sleeping mouse is about 15 grams, and when it is ready to hibernate, the weight will more than double, rise to about 40 grams, and then fall asleep peacefully.
Because of the sleeping habit of sleeping mice, there is not much time to reproduce, plus sleeping mice often starve to death in sleep, so the number of sleeping mice has been very small, whether in China or abroad, sleeping rats have always been endangered animals. I have to say that this sleeping mouse is really a magical animal, and it has slept its own population to the point of extinction.
In recent years, people have found that this sleeping mouse is particularly suitable for pets, so some farmer friends began to breed this sleeping mouse, but also let the number of sleeping rats increase a lot, but because the sleeping mouse is a relatively rare animal, now the market is also more expensive, an adult sleeping mouse generally to sell to more than 300 yuan, is very expensive.
Finally, Xiaobian said that it is recommended that you do not buy wild sleeping mice, which are very small in China and need to be protected.
Source: Sannong Observation
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