The secret life of the harvest mouse
ByThese pictures give a rare insight into the secret lives of tiny harvest mice.Photographers Jean-Louis Klein and Marie-Luce Hubert spent one year photographing the adorable little creatures in a project that saw them released from captivity into the wild.
A harvest mouse balancing between two stalks of grass in a field in Alsace, France
A harvest mouse seems to look directly into the camera while balancing on ears of wheat
A female harvest mouse and her young (aged 5 days) in a nest
A harvest mouse female regurgitating to feed her cubs (aged 10 days old)
To demonstrate how mice often take to the water in the wet meadows they inhabit, 55-year-old Jean-Louis and 46-year-old Marie-Luce gave one of their subjects a dip in a mouse-sized aquarium before releasing it into the wild
A young harvest mouse on an ear of wheat
A harvest mouse drinking the dew on a blade of grass
Three young harvest mice link tails while sitting on a branch…
…and another young mouse uses his tail to hang off theirs
A female harvest mouse carrying a baby to a new nest
A harvest mouse leaps through the air in autumn
A harvest mouse peers out from a nest
A harvest mouse balancing between two stalks of grass in Alsace, France, holds a grasshopper between its front paws
A harvest mouse female pushing a male on a branch
A male harvest mouse on canary grass in front of a spider’s web
A harvest mouse female and young on plant stems
A harvest mouse is pictured among wheat and poppies
23 Comments
September 25th, 2010 at 12:11 am
Wow. Really cool pics. Thanks for posting.
September 25th, 2010 at 1:22 am
Lovely
September 27th, 2010 at 11:14 pm
What amazing photos. Thanks for posting them.
September 30th, 2010 at 4:28 am
I never knew how beautiful mice could be in a natural setting! brava! thank you!
October 1st, 2010 at 12:27 am
Wow these pictures are obviously photoshopped, why don’t you actually take REAL pictures instead of just copying and pasting? Trololololo
I’m kidding; these pictures have a unique focus to them that really revolves around the environment and the mouse. I really want to know how you did that. Harvest mice are cute I guess.
October 8th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
wow those mice look really cute.
October 10th, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Very nice pics, cute animals living freely in nature.
October 10th, 2010 at 9:59 pm
nice photos very well done
October 30th, 2010 at 1:56 am
these were very beautifully rendered. Not only an interesting subject, but each photo is a very well put together composition. Great job.
November 27th, 2010 at 10:59 pm
Ok that’s just toooooo damn cute!!!
December 5th, 2010 at 8:41 pm
Did they died?
December 7th, 2010 at 6:43 pm
Awwww, they are so cute
December 7th, 2010 at 7:24 pm
Awwwwww so cute…. until your are stuck hunting those fuckers through your walls…
December 7th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Great images, The best of all is the mouse in front of the web.
Tell the rest of the story. How did you go about setting up to take these extraordinary photographs. What adventures did you have in doing this project? Inquiring minds want to know.
Thanks for the joy and smiles on seeing these small creatures.
December 12th, 2010 at 3:52 pm
These are beautiful, not just cute.
They show the wonderful variance that is life on earth. The sweetness of motherhood and siblings.
December 19th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
wow. beautiful, cute, adorable, wonderfullll
DDD
December 30th, 2010 at 4:05 pm
They look so adorable. But they do bite hard, I had one of those once.. They eat almost anything.
January 12th, 2011 at 2:03 am
An amazing project with stunning results. What adorable creatures.
February 2nd, 2011 at 2:00 pm
I like so much more when they are in the wild. These are really great photos, really well done!
May 8th, 2011 at 7:21 pm
Why is there a random britney spears?
June 27th, 2011 at 3:53 am
Lovely view into the life of such a special (usually unseen) creature.
December 15th, 2011 at 10:48 am
Amazing photos !
December 15th, 2011 at 6:01 pm
I hope you don’t mind that i have taken one photo to draw it. So i can make a coloring page of it for the kids!
Bianca