What is this? How do I look after it?

Normally I always say PUT IT BACK WHERE IT WAS FAGGOT but oh god that thing is so cute, ship me one too OP.

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>>2372911
Enclosure I made. Bought one kg of mouse and rat food. Wat do. Did I do gud or is it ded.

>>2372902

A vole maybe? I guess it could be sumkinda mouse.

What did you do with its ears

>>2372916
Nothing. Just found it that way.

Well, it looks like a vole to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vole

snoop around Google Images for Vole and see if you see a match.

>>2372902
Offer it some earthworms. Some rodents need a lot of invert protein.

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Bought this food.

>>2372902
>OP collects shower drain hair and puts googly eyes on it

OP fuck off

>>2372914
Nice setup. Get it some rodent hay at the pet store. If it's a vole, they fucking love to live in hay.

Looks like it needs low light conditions, dont see an animal with those eyes doing well in the daytime, possibly nocturnal

Voles are bad swimmers. Do not throw it in a pool.

>>2372902
It's some kind of vole, look at the short tail and round face

Feed it bugs

>>2372940
I just fucking lost it

>>2372902
why did it let you pick it up?

>>2373129
I've encountered a young vole (smaller than normal, but eyes wide open and fuzzy) in a parking lot once - they it hated the light so much it kept staying in my shadow and almost followed me into the store.

I ended up picking it up with a receipt and putting it into the bushes where it finally decided to scamper away.

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>>2372902
>The average life of the smaller vole species is three to six months. These voles rarely live longer than 12 months

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>>2372902
Yes, the Biogenetically Engineered Experimental Bipedal Organism, or BEEBO as I like to call him, is perfect in every way.

>>2372902
>vole
>A recent study into the behavior of voles, Microtus ochrogaster specifically, found that voles comfort each other when mistreated, spending more time grooming a mistreated vole. Voles that were not mistreated had levels of stress-hormones that were similar to the voles that had been mistreated, suggesting that the voles were capable of empathizing with each other. This was further proven by blocking the vole's receptors for oxytocin, a hormone involved in empathy. When the oxytocin receptors were blocked this behavior stopped.[9]
>This type of empathetic behavior has previously been thought to only occur in animals with advanced cognition, such as humans, apes, and elephants.

Vole a cute. A cute!

>>2373401
Doubt it'd even work, but it'd be interesting if they could sense stress in humans the same way. Would actually be a good therapy animal if they were bred to have longer lifespans

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Human diseases transmitted by microtine rodents include cystic hydatid disease, tularemia, bubonic plague, babesiosis, giardiasis and the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi.

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>>2373401

No offense, but this sounds like grant bait, not real science. Calling oxytocin 'a hormone involved with empathy' is sort of a tip off.

However it could just be the reporting. A lot of times people reporting actual science insist on exaggerating and distorting the researchers actual work to make it sound more exciting.

A lab researcher discovers a moth is drawn to citrus

Headline:

BOFFINS BREAKTHROUGH DISCOVERY FIRST STEP IN CITRUS-SEEKING CYBORG MOTH FOR MARS GENETICS PROGRAM