Other animals like deer and meadow mice may go into hypophagia, a kind of walking hibernation with minimal eating, at the same time of year.
Now the ants were gone, and the Earth stood lonely except for one hulking robot and some little meadow mice.
'Field mice are the same as meadow mice,' Senior explained to Homer, who had already been told this.
The birds come annually to breed among the island's heavy vegetation and to feed on its meadow mice and the killifish in the surrounding salt marshes.
They are sometimes known as meadow mice or field mice in North America.
Voles, or meadow mice, can cause damage to conifer plantation seedlings.
The only things it's good for now are the rabbits and the woodchucks and the meadow mice.
I'll probably start to eat meadow mice and ground squirrels tomorrow.
The holly forest is home to foxes, squirrels, rabbits, muskrats, meadow mice, raccoons, opossums, brown snakes, box turtles and diamondback terrapins.
Larger animals include mule deer, pronghorn, Belding's ground squirrel, Northern Pocket Gopher, meadow mice, and coyotes.