"There's a Moose Loose About the Hoose!"

People have been charmed, by a clip of a secretly-filmed mouse, "tidying up a man's shed almost every night for two months" (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/07/mouse-secretly-filmed-tidying-mans-shed-every-night). A wildlife photographer recorded the 'obliging' rodent, after it was noted that objects in the shed were "mysteriously put back where they belonged". Sorry to pour cold water on the story, but it's very well-established that small rodents are avid nest builders. Mice do this to a) enable them to maintain their body temperatures and b) keep neonates together, when breeding. Unremarkably, nest building activity is markedly increased in mice as temperatures fall. These rodents can survive in cold meat stores at -40 degrees Centigrade, if they can construct nests. The filmed rodent was clearly putting small scattered objects on the workbench, back into a box. That box looks like the only viable nesting site in what was presumably a cold garden shed!