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A wild mouse that filed for residency and never left.
means A small rodent species (Mus musculus) that has adapted to live almost exclusively alongside humans, nesting in buildings and surviving on human food and shelter.
from Straightforward compound — 'house' plus 'mouse' — first used to distinguish the domestic-dwelling rodent from field and wood mice. 'Mouse' itself is ancient, tracing back through Old English 'mūs' to a Proto-Indo-European root (something like 'mūs-') shared across many languages, possibly tied to a word for stealing, since the little creature was always quietly helping itself to the grain stores. The species itself followed humans out of the wild so long ago and so thoroughly that its scientific name, Mus musculus, essentially just means 'mouse mouse' — language running out of better ways to say 'the one that lives with us.'
- species
- Mus musculus, literally mouse mouse in Latin
- breeding speed
- can produce a litter every 3 weeks
- origin
- followed human grain storage out of Asia
- memory
- maps entire house walls using whisker touch