• Question: what is a Hazel Dormouse's average lifespan?

    Asked by lilpump to Hazel Dormouse on 3 Nov 2017.
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      Hazel Dormouse answered on 3 Nov 2017:

      In the wild they have been known to live for about 4 years, but when you consider they are asleep for almost half of that, it doesn’t seem very long at all. There was a captive Hazel Dormouse that lived for 6 years so on average 5 years!

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