The tiny critter, named for actor Patrick Stewart, was officially recognized Wednesday at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park
It’s official. The world’s oldest mouse in human care is a tiny critter living at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.
“There may be old mice, but they don’t have birth certificates,” Empric said at the ceremony held at Beckman Center for Conservation Research at Safari Park. “So what we needed was documentation.” Pat is named after actor Patrick Stewart, best known for playing Capt. Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek. He’s not the only mouse with a celebrity name, as his mother was Betty White.
Pat, a Pacific pocket mouse at San Diego Zoo Safari Park, is 9 years old, making him the oldest living mouse in human care. The Pacific pocket mouse’s range once stretched from Los Angeles to the Tijuana River Valley, but the species has been in decline because of human encroachment and habitat degredation. They were believed to be extinct for 20 years until a small population was discovered in 1994 in Dana Point.
“I said, ‘No, he’s only like eight. We have an older mouse,’” she recalled. “That got me thinking I should go look at the data base and see how old he is. And when I did, it turned out he was over nine years old, which sort of stunned me.”
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