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FSU biologist part of team that discovered new record for highest-living mammal – Mirage News
A yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse captured near the summit of the Llullaillaco volcano on the border of Chile and Argentina. Credit: Marcial…
A yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse captured near the summit of the Llullaillaco volcano on the border of Chile and Argentina.Credit: Marcial Quiroga-Carmona, Austral University of Chile
It was a surprising thing to see on the otherwise lifeless peak of a South American volcano – a mouse, specifically a yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse, or Phyllotis xanthopygus, scurrying among the rocks on the summit.
The find was especially startling because the mouse was living at an elevation of 22,100 feet, a …
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