Common Name
Southern Plains Woodrat
Order
Rodentia
Family
Cricetidae
Species Name
Neotoma micropus
Status
Lower Risk
States
Colorado
Kansas
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas
Distribution
SE Colorado and SW Kansas through W Texas and most of New Mexico; south in Mexico to N Chihuahua, E San Luis Potosi, and S Tamaulipas
Notes
Eats cactus leaves and fruit, mesquite beans, acorns and other plant material and can obtain sufficient water from its food. Makes a house under a prickly pear cactus or shrub and probably uses the same house for life. Lives in dry grasslands with cactus,