Species MammalsSouthern Bog Lemming

Southern Bog Lemming

Synaptomys cooperi

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Illustration of Southern Bog Lemming (Synaptomys cooperi)

The Southern Bog Lemming is a stocky, short-tailed rodent of sphagnum bogs, wet meadows, and forest edges in the eastern United States. It is most easily detected by the distinctive green-stained runways it leaves through lush vegetation and piles of clipped grass. Despite sharing the lemming name, it does not perform boom-and-bust population cycles like the Arctic true lemmings.

Habitat
Sphagnum bogs, wet meadows, and moist forest openings
Diet
Sedges, grasses, mosses, and forbs
How common
Uncommon

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