Mice or Mouses

Why is the input device used with computers, which has a pointer called a mouse? It doesn't look like one...well, i suppose if you had a really good imagination, the wire connected to it could look like a tail. But then what about the wireless mice? Are they still mice?

Well, guess what?

"The mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart of Stanford Research Institute in 1963. It is called a mouse because it resembles the rodent, a small curved moving body with sensing devices on one end and a tail on the other, and because the motion of the cursor on the screen is also mouselike. The plural can be either mice or mouses."

Interesting?