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What is eats: Scorpions, insects, other rodents and some plant material
This mouse species is an extremely aggressive predator and will attack pretty much anything moving that isn't significantly bigger than itself. It even resorts to cannibalism when food is scarce. It stalks prey before seizing it, then kills with a bite to the head. Related: A war of the rats was raging in North America decades before the Declaration of Independence
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