What do you call the things that mice walk on and pick things up with?
In college biologial anthropology we called it a “grasping foot-paw.”
Calling Mouse_Maven…
That sounds about right. Only primate have hands, so a mouse wouldn’t qualify. A paw is just the padded part of a foot on certain mammalian quadrupeds, and stands in contrast to a hoof. Mice do have claws, and a paw isn’t a paw unless the animal has claws or nails, too.
I was about to say paw, and then I remembered that deer mice are also called white-footed mice. So paw vs. foot may be a matter of preference.
Claws is a matter of fact; mice have them. I’ve never heard the front paws/feet called hands unless someone was trying to be funny.