Mouse sleeping

A blog about Ruth Winding's handmade menagerie.

The tiny creature was found tucked up in a nest box near Saltash, Cornwall, after spending weeks foraging for food to prepare it for its months of hibernation.

This one shows the tail of the mouse in a better view and I'm hoping to make this one look similar to the cat pictogram by making it's tail curl around it's body while it sleeps as well.

Another sleeping dormouse Credit: J. Stuart

Studying mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins have fortified evidence that a key purpose of sleep is to recalibrate the brain cells responsible for learning and memory so the animals can “solidify” lessons learned and use them when they awaken — in the case of nocturnal mice, the next evening.

Because of various events and changes in my viewpoint the past year which I will explain at the end of the post, I feel quite attached to nature. Seen below are a few studies for a series of smalle…

We can't forget about the littler guys!