What's 10cm long, notoriously shy, and lives on a remote Top End island? These INCREDIBLY adorable tiny mice! | ABC Darwin

Hickory dickory dock, the mouse ran up the... tree! 🐁 Australia’s ground-dwelling hopping mice have been recorded for the first time climbing trees up to 1.5m high. AWC ecologists recorded 43 of the native rodents in survey methods set to monitor the reintroduced population of Red-tailed Phascogales at Mt Gibson. Read more about the exciting new findings: bit.ly/AWC-Hickory-Dickory-Hopping-Mice 🎥 G Anderson/AWC 📍 Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary, Badimia Country, Western Australia | Australian Wi

Wishing you a hopping great Easter! 🐭 Meet our version of an Easter Bilby – the spinifex hopping mouse (Notomys Alexis). These mice are small, furry and quite the social bunch. We think they’re pretty cute! What say you? 🐁 😍 | Melbourne Museum

Not your everyday mouse! 🐭 Let us introduce the Spinifex hopping mouse, a very small, native Aussie mouse that hops like a kangaroo! They have large eyes that help them see in the dark and quick reflexes to hop away from predators. They are one of the smallest mammals at the Zoo, and you find them inside our nguwing nura - Nocturnal Country... but shhh.. keep your voices low and no flash photography as they, and the rest of our night dwelling friends, are very sensitive to light. #ForTheWild #h