Hairless Mice

Posted by Miss Cellania in Animal, Pictures on August 8, 2008 at 10:47 am



Flickr user 2roxfox breeds hairless mice. Mice that carry the trait are born with hair, but begin to lose it at about two weeks of age. Within a week, they are completely bald! See a photo set of her latest litter of ten, seven of which carried the hairless trait. Link -via b3ta


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9 comments to "Hairless Mice"

  1. bean
    August 8th, 2008 at 11:43 am

    Is she studying baldness genes in humans, or does she just think those things are cute? Not that I would disagree... I've always thought sphinx cats are pretty. A sphinx cat playing with a bald mouse would be awesome.

  2. Alex
    August 8th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

    A hairless Chinese crested dog playign with a sphynx cat playing with a hairless mouse would be awesome. Double awesome if we can get Andre Agassi to play with the dog.

  3. Alana
    August 8th, 2008 at 4:47 pm

    There are hairless guinea pigs too. I think they were originally bred because you can use them for dermatology research without having to hire a full time rodent shaver.

  4. Lea
    August 8th, 2008 at 8:49 pm

    I had a hairless hamster I rescued from the pet store in my neighborhood. All the "normal" hamsters were picking on it and they had to separate her. My dad thought she was a rock at first (because of how she was curled up).
    Smartest and sweetest little hamster I have ever met though. :)

  5. Daniel Kim
    August 8th, 2008 at 9:35 pm

    Hairless hamster? It sounds like the other hamsters wouldn't let her play any hamster games.

    I used to work for a small biotech company in Berkeley, where they had a room full of caged nude mice. This breed of mice is used in biological research, particularly cancer research. They are conveniently hairless, but also are "athymic": that is, they lack a thymus, which is an immune system organ. This prevents them from rejecting foreign tissue grafts, I think.

    There was one of the scientists who was bald, wrinkled, and a bit portly. He looked a lot like the nude mice.

  6. JC
    August 8th, 2008 at 11:52 pm

    I think it´s cute.

  7. Mayor of Kentonville
    August 9th, 2008 at 7:10 am

    Makes me sweaty

  8. bugra
    August 9th, 2008 at 10:57 am

    Weird and not a good choice for survival in the wild :)

  9. Thomas
    August 9th, 2008 at 11:29 am

    Doesn't blend in very well, does he?


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