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 3 Liomys in the field DHJanzen100529.jpg high resolution
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| A Liomys paused at a hole in a rock-hard Hymenaea courbaril fruit (15 cm long), a hole chewed by an agouti with the intension of eating its pulp, and taking its seed for present and later consumption. The mouse cannot chew through the wall of a Hymenaea fruit, but once opened, does not hesitate to steal the large seeds inside and take them off to its nest (see below). This is the kind of photograph (with flash) that you are accustomed to seeing in National Geographic and pretty pictures in books mammals. This is the image that you would normally have of this mouse. But this is indeed a very false image (see DHJanzen100530.jpg below). | ||
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