Mouse-blogging Wimbledon

On this first day of the Wimbledon tournament, I bring you two things that could not be more British--tennis and mice. The harvest mouse is England's smallest mammal, and it is also one of its most endangered species. Harvest mice generally weave spherical nests out of reeds and grasses, but the lucky harvest mice at the Aquarium of the Lakes in Cumbria can do a lot more nesting because the aquarium staff has provided them with ready-made nests.

Tennis balls used at Wimbledon are provided for the mice, who are breeding happily in their new nests.

This would probably be a good way to use the balls that Tim Henman discovered were being taken out of their cans a week before the matches, causing poor bounce.