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Mouse hanging out atop volcano called world’s highest-dwelling mammal – CNET
A yellow-rumped mouse is spotted at the top of a 22,000-foot volcano in the Andes. “This astonishing elevation shows to what extremes life is capable of.”
This is the record-breaking yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse captured near the summit of the Llullaillaco volcano on the border of Chile and Argentina.
Marcial Quiroga-Carmona/Austral University of Chile
The world’s highest summits aren’t as desolate as scientists once thought. During a mountaineering expedition in northern Chile earlier this year, researchers spotted and captured a yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse atop the 22,000-foot summit of Volcan Llullaillaco.
The mouse broke the world rec…
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