Dipodoidea Dipodidae (Jerboas, jumping mice and birch mice) Muroidea Platacanthomyidae (Oriental dormice) Spalacidae (Zokors, bamboo rats, mole rats, blind mole rats) Calomyscidae (Mouse-like hamsters) Nesomyidae (Malagasy rats and relatives) Cricetidae (Hamsters and relatives) Muridae (House mouse and relatives) Dodgson was playing on the archaic origin of ‘treacle’, which referred not to a syrup but to medicine. The well was a subject of much interest for another member of Christ Church, Thomas Prout (1824–1909). The inscription now on the well head states that he had it rebuilt in 1874. He had a reputation for falling asleep in meetings. Be careful how you treat your colleagues: you might end up as a dormouse. The story of Brichtiva of Northampton’s pilgrimage to St Margaret’s Well in the 1180s: MS. Digby 177, fol. 16v. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Snow White • Evil Queen • Doc • Grumpy • Happy • Bashful • Sneezy • Sleepy • Dopey Juškaitis, R. (2001). "Weight changes of the common dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius L.) during the year in Lithuania" (PDF). Trakya University Journal of Scientific Research. Hoelzl, Franz, et al. " How to Spend the Summer? Free-Living Dormice ( Glis glis) Can Hibernate for 11 Months in Non-Reproductive Years." Journal of Comparative Physiology B, vol. 185, no. 8, 2015, pp. 931-939., doi:10.1007/s00360-015-0929-1

Music: Alice and the Mad Tea Party • Alice and the Trial • Alice and the White Rabbit • Little Nipper Giant Storybook Record Album Although an attractive creature, the dormouse cousin – the edible dormouse is considered a pest. It can cause damage and destruction to properties, crops, and tress. Simply by their presence they can cause damage in commercial, domestic and farm environments. Can you have a dormouse as a pet? Alice's Wonderland Bakery: Alice • Hattie Hatter • Fergie the White Rabbit • Rosa Corazón • Queen of HeartsOn the outside cover of the book is the dormouse eating a sunflower seed and peeping out from among some apple blossom. Turn the cover of the book and here we have your first feely picture. Can you find 3 mice on it? They're all different shapes and sizes. One's the dormouse and two are harvest mice.

Lewis Carroll (the pen name of Charles Dodgson, 1832–98) was a fellow of Christ Church. The original Alice was Alice Liddell, the daughter of the dean. Henry Liddell is now best known to students for ‘Liddell and Scott’, his Greek-English Lexicon that has never gone out of print. The Dormouse appears as a member of the Mad T Party band at Disneyland's California Adventure Park. In the Mad T Party he is interpreted as a male rather than 2010 film's female Mallymkun, whom he is based on. He plays lead guitar and often scurries around with the March Hare on stage.Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License and the GFDL; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details. Another interesting fact about the feeding patterns of a dormouse is the way they feed on hazelnuts.

So, a dormouse spends most of the time in a state of sleeping and napping. In fact, a dormouse can spend nearly three-quarters of the year in some form of sleep. Climatic effects on dormice A dormouse feeds on a hazelnut by gnawing a round hole in the shell which leaves distinctive marks. When a dormouse feeds on a hazelnut its tooth marks run parallel to the edge of the hole instead of outwards from its center.The word is sometimes conjectured to come from an Anglo-Norman derivative of dormir (to sleep), with the second element mistaken for mouse, but no such Anglo-Norman term is known to have existed. [4] That’s why some conservationists are building nest boxes as a temporary solution to house dormice, which have become symbols of old-growth forests in Europe, Bujanauskas says. Research studies in both Lithuania and the United Kingdom reveal that not only do dormice use the nest boxes, the devices seem to increase their populations. Shorts and Specials: A Lesson in Appreciating Differences • Donald in Mathmagic Land • Writing Magic with Figment and Alice in Wonderland • One Hour in Wonderland • Operation Wonderland Reptiles and amphibians go into a version of hibernation called brumation. Because the cold-blooded things rely on the sun to regulate their body temperature, hibernation is essential for their survival in colder climes. However, their ‘ectothermic’ nature means that they are entirely reactive to temperature; if the winter sun comes out, so do they. The scaly things do not sleep the deep sleep of overwintering mammals. Edible dormice usually spend around seven months out of the year hibernating in underground burrows. The rest of the year, these expert climbers—more closely related to squirrels than mice—take to the trees, only venturing from their hollows for a few hours each night to eat. This means opportunities to observe the animals are basically nonexistent, says Bujanauskas. ( Read about the fascinating ways animals prepare for cold weather.)

Although dormice are quite small, their perfectly structured paws, toes, and claws give them the extra ability to climb up a tree with some agility.

Watch a researcher open a nest box and discover an edible dormouse in Neris Regional Park, Lithuania. A dormouse’s body (without the tail) can reach up to a length of 3.9 inches (10 centimeters). When you include the tail it can reach a length of 6.3 inches (or 16cm). Weight The newborns should also ideally reach a weight of about 0.53 to 0.63 ounces (15-18 grams) to survive the winter hibernation. My preschooler loves animal stories, especially if the animals concerned are furry and adorable. In "The Sleepy Dormouse", a young dormouse sleeps on, curled up in his nest, oblivious to everything else. One day, a weasel called Scraggly Sam comes by and takes the dormouse with him, intending to eat him for supper. Finding the dormouse rather undernourished, Sam proceeds to fatten him up under a flowerpot. Fortunately for the naive dormouse, a group of kind-hearted harvest mice come along to rescue him.