Verreaux's Mouse or Verreaux's White-footed Rat (Myomyscus verreauxii) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in South Africa. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation.
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“Why do precisely these objects which we behold make a world? Why has man just these species of animals for his neighbors; as if nothing but a mouse could have filled this crevice?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)