These pictures give a rare insight into the secret lives of tiny harvest mice. The Harvest Mouse, Micromys minutus, is a small rodent native to Europe and Asia. It is typically found in fields of cereal crops such as wheat and oats, in reed beds and in other tall ground vegetation such as long grass and hedgerows. 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. Also see the beautiful pictures of Tiger Cubs here.
A female harvest mouse carrying a baby to a new nest(L)
A harvest mouse drinking the dew on a blade of grass
A female harvest mouse feeding her cubs aged 10 days old(L) and a female harvest mouse, her young (aged 5 days) in a nest(R)
A harvest mouse balancing between two stalks of grass in a field in Alsace, France
A female harvest mouse carrying a baby to a new nest(L)
A harvest mouse drinking the dew on a blade of grass
A female harvest mouse feeding her cubs aged 10 days old(L) and a female harvest mouse, her young (aged 5 days) in a nest(R)
A harvest mouse balancing between two stalks of grass in a field in Alsace, France
