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This image depicts two side-by-side rodents: a house mouse (Mus musculus) above and a 2-week-old Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus) below. Note the rat’s coarser hair, smaller ears, blunter head and tail, and proportionally larger feet compared with the mouse’s larger ears, longer tail, finer hair, and proportionally smaller feet.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Bayard F. Bjornson
Creation Date: 1961
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