They live on the peaks.
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A scientist holds an Andean leaf-eared mouse. It lives in Chile. (Marcial Quiroga-Carmona/Handout/Reuters) -
Northern Chile has a desert on the coast. It also has the Andes mountain range. The peaks rise to 22,000 feet. (AP/Dima Gavrysh) -
A man takes oxygen at the top of a high mountain. It is harder for people to breathe at tall peaks. (Getty Images) -
A reporter wears an oxygen mask in 1943. He is on a plane that flies at great heights. (AP)
Look up high. It is so high that people can not live there. What calls this place home? Mice do!
God made these creatures. They stay warm where it is cold. They eat what others can not.
Pray: Thank God that He takes care of everything He has made.
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The Andean leaf-eared mouse lives in northern Chile. The land rises to 22,000 feet. No other known mammal lives at such heights. Temperatures are almost always below freezing there. Oxygen is a gas in the air. People need it to live. There is not as much oxygen on high mountains. That is no problem for these creatures! Scientists studied 167 of them. Mountain mice make more body heat than other rodents. Their muscles make more energy. The mice can eat plants that make other animals sick.
“The Earth is full of your creatures.” (Psalm 104:24)
Recommended Reading: For more about mice and the books they inspire, read A Boy, a Mouse, and a Spider: The Story of E.B. White by Barbara Herkert.
