The yellow-haired mouse has a timid personality. The yellow-haired mouse is an omnivorous rodent with a plant-based diet. Rice, sweet potato, sugar cane, wheat, corn, peanuts, beans, melons and vegetables are all eaten, but they prefer to eat seed foods with higher nutritional value, and sometimes a small amount of animal foods, and their eating habits often vary with changes with crop changes.

The yellow-haired mouse is very adaptable to the natural environment, so the habitat The types are very wide, but mainly in the crop area, and it is the main rodent species in the crop area. The yellow-haired rat is widely inhabited in paddy fields, sugarcane fields, sweet potato fields, banana fields and vegetable gardens, among which the paddy fields are the most common. In addition, embankments, shrubs, and thatched slopes also have their activities and habitats. Yellow-haired rats generally do not enter human houses, but are only occasionally found in houses close to farmland.