Dale Sutton / 2020VISION / Tawny owl (Strix aluco) flying with Dormouse prey (Muscardinus avellanairus) to nest, Sussex, UK, April

Tim Laman / Mouse (Mus ? Apodemus ?). New, unidentified species found at 1650 m in the Foja Mountains. Papua, Indonesia, 2008. (taken during Conservation International Rapid Assessment Program expedition)

Edwin Giesbers / House Mouse (Mus musculus) peering through hole in cheese. Captive.

Ernie Janes / Domestic cat, tortoiseshell kitten playing with white mouse

Ernie Janes / Domestic cat, tortoiseshell kitten playing with white mouse

Laurent Geslin / House mouse (Mus musculus) running along pipe in garage. Captive. Switzerland

Laurent Geslin / House mouse (Mus musculus) emerging from pipe in garage, at night, Captive. Switzerland

Laurent Geslin / House mouse (Mus musculus) walking down sloping beam in light from a window. Switzerland. Captive, May. Property released

Laurent Geslin / House mouse (Mus musculus) running along pipe in garage. Captive. Switzerland

Laurent Geslin / Wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) caught on camera trap at night, France

David Tipling / Harvest mouse (Micromys minutus) on Barley, Norfolk, UK, July

David Tipling / Harvest mouse (Micromys minutus) looking out of tennis ball being used as nest in a nature reserve, Norfolk, UK, June

Mark Taylor / Two Maine Coon kittens looking at an image of a mouse on a laptop computer.

Kim Taylor / Yellow-necked Mice (Apodemus flavicollis) feeding on peanut bird feeder at night. Surrey, UK

Andy Sands / Harvest mouse {Micromys minutus} climbing on Cocksfoot grass with wildflower meadow behind, captive, UK

Andy Sands / Harvest mouse {Micromys minutus) standing on Knapweed with wildflower meadow behind, captive, UK

Andy Sands / Female Harvest mouse {Micromys minutus} rejecting advances of male from ground nest in corn, captive, UK

David Kjaer / Harvest Mouse {Micromys minutus} climbing between wheat-ears, Captive, Europe.

Andy Sands / House Mouse {Mus domesticus / musculus} sitting-up outside farm building, Captive, UK.

Hans Christoph Kappel / Greater mouse-eared bat {Myotis myotis} in flight, Europe.

Jabruson / Gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica) eating mouse. Epulu Ituri, DR Congo (formerly Zaire), Central Africa

Michael Durham / Deer Mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) jumping as an evasive behavior, Forest Park, Oregon

Jabruson / King baboon spider (Citharischius crawshayi) with mouse prey. Tsavo NP, Kenya, East Africa

Jabruson / Female King baboon spider feeds on mouse kill, Tsavo NP Kenya

Jabruson / King baboon spider with dead mouse, Kenya, Africa

Gerry Ellis / Deer Mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus), North and Central America

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Southern Grasshopper Mouse (Onychomys torridus) male singing on its territory, Chihuahua Desert, Mexico

Konrad Wothe / Brown Mouse Lemur (Microcebus rufus), Madagascar

Jose B. Ruiz / Great grey shrike with impaled mouse prey which it is dismembering to feed to chicks. Spain

Hans Christoph Kappel / Greater mouse eared bat (Myotis Myotis) in flight

Jabruson / African bullfrog {Pyxicephalus flavigula} eating mouse. Tsavo East NP, Kenya

Hermann Brehm / Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo) with mouse it has just caught, Germany, September

Ross Hoddinott / Harvest mouse (Micromys minutus) on wheat stem, Devon, UK captive

Mark Carwardine / Madame Berthe's mouse lemur {Microcebus berthae} being released from live trap, Kirindy Forest, western Madagascar, Smallest primate in the world, Endangered

Mark Carwardine / Madame Berthe's mouse lemur {Microcebus berthae} after release from live trap, Kirindy Forest, western Madagascar. Smallest primate in the world, Endangered

Mark Carwardine / Madame Berthe's mouse lemur {Microcebus berthae} being released from live trap, Kirindy Forest, western Madagascar. Smallest primate in the world, Endangered

Mark Carwardine / Madame Berthe's mouse lemur {Microcebus berthae} being released from live trap, Kirindy Forest, western Madagascar. Smallest primate in the world, Endangered

Mark Carwardine / Madame Berthe's mouse lemur {Microcebus berthae} being released from live trap, Kirindy Forest, western Madagascar. Smallest primate in the world, Endangered

Mark Carwardine / Turkish spiny mice (Acomys cilicicus) captive, from Southern coast of Turkey, Critically endangered - Bristol Zoo

Tui De Roy / Galapagos Barn Owl (Tyto alba punctatissima) with mouse, perched at night. Academy Bay, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, October.

Nick Upton / 2020VISION / Mother and children looking at young Wood mouse / Long-tailed field mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) live-trapped during a Bioblitz survey at Abbots Pool and woodland reserve, Bristol, UK, June 2012. Model...

Michel Poinsignon / White mice (Mus genus) on bookcase (captive)

Michel Poinsignon / White mice (Mus genus) in socks (captive)

Michel Poinsignon / White mice (Mus genus) in socks (captive)

Michel Poinsignon / White mice (Mus genus) on bookcase (captive)

Erlend Haarberg / Wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) feeding with ash plume from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in the distance, Iceland, May 2010

Loic Poidevin / Grey / Lesser mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus) sucking sap from tree, Madagascar.

Sandesh Kadur / Indian spotted chevrotain / Mouse deer (Moschiola indica) road kill, Western Ghats, Southern India

Inaki Relanzon / Goodman's mouse lemur (Microcebus lehilahytsara) clinging to branch, Andasibe Mantadia National Park, Madagascar, September

Tim Laman / Mouse (Mus ? Apodemus ?). New, unidentified species found at 1650 m in the Foja Mountains. Papua, Indonesia, 2008. (taken during Conservation International Rapid Assessment Program expedition)

Klaus Echle / Pygmy / Ural Field Mouse (Apodemus uralensis) on ear of barley. Black Forest, Germany, July.

Klaus Echle / Pygmy / Ural Field Mouse (Apodemus uralensis) on ear of barley. Black Forest, Germany, July.

Klaus Echle / Pygmy / Ural Field Mouse (Apodemus uralensis) on vegetation. Black Forest, Germany, August.

Klaus Echle / Man in a cave looking at a Greater Mouse-eared Bat (Myotis myotis). Black Forest, Germany, February.

Klaus Echle / House Mouse (Mus musculus) walking along skirting board. Black Forest, Germany, February.

Konrad Wothe / Domestic Cat (Felis catus) catching mouse in garden, Bavaria, Germany

Ernie Janes / Goins King Snake (Lampropeltis getulus goini) consuming a dead mouse. Captive.

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Torresian Crow (Corvus orru) eating mouse, Uluru-kata Tjuta National Park, Northern Territory, Australia

Rod Williams / Grey / Lesser Mouse Lemur (Microcebus murinus) Captive, occurs Western Madagascar

Pete Oxford / Lesser mouse lemur {Microcebus murinus} looking up at night, Kirindy Forest, Madagascar

Ernie Janes / Domestic cat, tortoiseshell kitten playing with white mouse

Ernie Janes / Domestic cat, tortoiseshell kitten playing with white mouse

Ernie Janes / Domestic cat, tortoiseshell kitten playing with white mouse

Ernie Janes / Domestic cat, tortoiseshell kitten playing with white mouse

Ernie Janes / Domestic cat, tortoiseshell kitten playing with white mouse

Ernie Janes / Domestic cat, tortoiseshell kitten playing with white mouse

Ernie Janes / Domestic cat, tortoiseshell kitten playing with white mouse

Ernie Janes / Domestic cat, tortoiseshell kitten playing with white mouse

Ernie Janes / Domestic cat, tortoiseshell kitten watching white mouse

Ernie Janes / Domestic cat, tortoiseshell kitten playing with white mouse

Ernie Janes / Domestic cat, tortoiseshell kitten playing with white mouse

Laurent Geslin / House mouse (Mus musculus) walking up sloping beam in light from a window. Switzerland. Captive, May

Laurent Geslin / House mouse (Mus musculus) walking down sloping beam in light from a window. Switzerland, Captive, May

Laurent Geslin / House mouse (Mus musculus) foraging on boxes inside a house. Captive. Switzerland

Laurent Geslin / House mouse (Mus musculus) foraging on boxes inside a house. Captive. Switzerland

Laurent Geslin / House mouse (Mus musculus) foraging on boxes inside a house. Captive. Switzerland

Laurent Geslin / House mice (Mus musculus) foraging on boxes inside a house. Captive. Switzerland, May

Laurent Geslin / Three House mice (Mus musculus) on a sloping beam, in the light from a window. Captive. Switzerland

Laurent Geslin / House mice (Mus musculus) foraging on boxes inside a house. Captive. Switzerland

Stephen Dalton / House mice (Mus musculus) in hessian sack, UK

Aflo / ic-06201 Golden hamster on computer keyboard.

Tui De Roy / Barn Owl (Tyto alba) eating introduced mouse, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Stephen Dalton / Tawny owl {Strix aluco} flying to chicks in nest in tree with rodent prey, UK

David Tipling / Harvest mouse {Micromys minutus} amongst ripe heads of Barley, Norfolk, UK, July

David Tipling / Woman hand-feeding rodent to Gyrfalcon {Falco rusticolus} Scandinavia, March 2006

Andy Rouse / Grey mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus) on branch in spiny forest at night, Madagascar

David Tipling / Harvest mouse (Micromys minutus) looking out of a tennis ball being used as a nest, in a nature reserve, Norfolk, UK, June

David Tipling / Harvest mouse (Micromys minutus) climbing down grass, in nature reserve after being released as part of re-introduction program, Norfolk, UK, June

David Tipling / Child holding a Harvest mouse (Micromys minutus) Norfolk, UK, model released

David Tipling / Two Harvest mice (Micromys minutus) looking out of nest in a tennis ball, Norfolk, UK

David Tipling / Child watching Harvest mouse (Micromys minutus) being released as part of re-introduction program, Norfolk, UK, June, model released

Mark Bowler / Albino White Mouse {Mus musculus}

Juan Carlos Munoz / Snowy owl (Nyctea / Bubo scandiaca) flying over snow with rodent in talons, Norway, February

Wild Wonders of Europe / Nill / Common roller (Coracias garrulus) in flight with rodent prey, Bulgaria, May 2008

Wild Wonders of Europe / Varesvuo / Red-footed Falcon (Falco vespertinus) male perched with vole prey, Hortobagy NP, Hungary, May 2008

Andy Sands / Wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) among seeds of wild Clematis, Captive, UK