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17-02-2010, 12:30 PM
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| | | Immobile fieldmouse
In the UK in Berkshire, in the high summer of 1984, early evening, I was cycling past a field of ripe corn. I noticed a queer thing. A fieldmouse was sitting, perfectly still on the roadside, facing into the field of corn. I picked it up. It looked perfectly healthy, with smooth, clean fur, no broken limbs, & bright eyes. I put it into the corn. About 30 minutes later, I returned the same way. This fieldmouse, or another one very like it, was sat in almost exactly the same position – no apparent injury – just facing into the field! Could this be the effects of a chemical spray, perhaps? I know blinded animals can immobilise like this, but this fieldmouse made not even a movement when I handled it. Strange, I've always wondered about it! |
17-02-2010, 03:39 PM
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| | | Re: Immobile fieldmouse
Welcome to WAB. This sounds very unusual, especially that it should stay immobile for so long. Was it a cold evening?
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17-02-2010, 03:45 PM
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| |  Re: Immobile fieldmouse
Welcome Tom, that sounds strange,maybe there was a predator about and it froze with fear.....Again,  welcome.....Posie... |
17-02-2010, 08:06 PM
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| | | Re: Immobile fieldmouse
Hi Tom and welcome to WAB I'm as stumped as you re the behaviour of the Fieldmouse, very strange! Hopefully someone may provide an explanation. Was it very cold as Henrya asked or was it perhaps as Posie suggested frozen in fear, because of a predator? I really don't know, but the fact that it remained stock still when you picked it up has me stumped - very strange!
I once had a newt do this, I thought it was dead, picked it up, examined it, then put it down. Told the children about it, but when we went out to look at it, it had scarpered. Thing is though your field mouse didn't, it's really strange.
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17-02-2010, 08:25 PM
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| | | Re: Immobile fieldmouse
Hi folks,
no, the weather was warm, approx 1800 hrs. Predators, I don't know, but it seemed strange even so that the fieldmice (one mouse or two?) froze on the tarmac, the roadside, not hidden in the crop. This is what stopped me dead on both occasions - tiny still creatures. just apparently looking into the field. At least others are as stumped as I was! Maybe it's that not unfamiliar thing, an inexplicable animal mystery. | | |
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