A man in Wales, UK has found that a mouse tidies up the stuff in his shed every night.
After regularly discovering that things from the night before had been mysteriously tidied, he set up a night vision camera on his workbench.
It captured a mouse picking up clothes pegs, corks, nuts and bolts.
…The 75-year-old from Builth Wells, Powys, said the tidying ritual had been going on for two months.
“At first I noticed that some food that I was putting out for the birds was ending up in some old shoes I was storing in the shed,” he said.
“Ninety nine times out of 100 the mouse will tidy up throughout the night.
No word on if the mouse is taking on new clients whose sheds need cleaning.
Oh, that’s adorable!
I wonder if this behaviour isn’t just the mouse building a nest and the ‘tidying up’ is our human interpretation?
djudge,
I am pretty sure that tidying up is our interpretation. The mouse is doing it for reasons that only the mouse knows and building a nest may well be one.
i recognize that mouse. That’s The Brain.
He is doing the same thing he does every night--trying to take over the world.
Sorry, didn’t realise I was stating the obvious.
[djudge, relax. Mano is anything but snarky. I interpret it as adding to your comment]
Ah well, FWIW, I was gonna joke about a dragon’s hoard as analogic.
(My precious!)
PS (Published: March 23, 2019):
https://theconversation.com/heres-what-that-house-proud-mouse-was-doing-plus-five-other-animals-who-take-cleaning-seriously-114040