A South American mouse is the world’s highest-dwelling mammal
A yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse was found 6,739 meters above sea level atop a dormant volcano
A yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse similar to this one was found scurrying among the rocks at the summit of a dormant volcano on the border of Chile and Argentina, at a record altitude of 6,739 meters (22,110 feet).
Marcial Quiroga-Carmona