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Prater Canyon is the only one of these localities at which any other species of vole was taken.
An increase in grazing activity, road building, and camping in Prater and Morfield canyons might eliminate the small areas of habitat occupied by the montanevole and the wandering shrew.
Aspects of reproduction and development in the prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster).
It is the smallest species, and has a greyish-brown fur like the Water-Vole, the Bank-Vole being redder.
A certain Vole (Arvicola economus) acts in much the same way as the Hamster, though he harvests a different class of objects.
In this region the burrows of the Vole abound; therefore this singular tithe ensures a considerable revenue to those who levy it, as may be understood when we remember the extent of the stores amassed by the animal.
As he is the weaker, the Vole is obliged to submit to this vexatious tax.
There is one species ofVole (Microtus nivalis) which occurs in the high Alps, and which has been supposed to be a typical Alpine form.
It was clear that if the cult of the water-violet involved the killing of the water-vole it had got to be abandoned.
But just at that time a water-vole took up his residence there, and developing a remarkable fondness for a new savour in his salads, quickly made havoc of my Hottonia palustris.
Jerdon states he got thisvole at Kunawur, near Chini, again on the south side of the Barendo pass, and also in the Pir Punjal.
A population study of the prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster) in northeastern Kansas.
This vole was one-half of the average length and less than one-fifth of the average weight of an adult, and of approximately the size at which weaning takes place.
Nests were at depths of four to eight inches in old tunnels, which most often seemed to be those of moles but also included some of the prairie vole, and perhaps some of the pine vole (Microtus pinetorum).
A large adult vole is too large to be swallowed except by an unusually large racer, and a young vole old enough to leave its nest is far too large for a hatchling racer.
The prairie volewith eight records was the most frequent prey, and the racer and cardinal (nestlings) each had seven, while all other species were represented by fewer occurrences.
A population study of the prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster) in northeastern Kansas.
They are nearly as bitter against animals, the poor water-vole (or water-rat) even is denounced and shot.
The chief resorts of the Field Vole are meadows and damp pastures, but it will also be found in gardens, orchards, and plantations, doing enormous damage in every place, for its food is mainly of a vegetable character.
As in the case of the Wood Mouse, there are several local races of the Field Vole that have arisen in the islands of the Orkneys and Hebrides, which have been elevated into distinct species by some recent authors.
George Barry, in his "History of the Orkney Islands," mentions a rodent that was known locally as the Vole Mouse, which he believed to be the same as the agrestis of Linnaeus.
These runs are made without disturbing the grass blades, which cross above them and so enable the Vole to run or creep along them without being seen by the hawk that circles high overhead.
There can be little doubt that in many places the Bank Vole has been mistaken for a bright variation of the Field Vole.
Though the odour probably protects the Water Vole from some animals that might otherwise prey upon it, it does not appear to be objectionable to the Heron, the Owl, or the Stoat.
The Orkney Vole appears to be specially fond of the roots of Heath Rush (Juncus squarrosus), but also feeds on grass and the crops in cultivated fields to which they can gain access.
In the Water Vole and the Field Vole these teeth are not rooted in the jaw; in the Bank Vole they are in the adult.
Very few of the Rodents are aquatic in their habits, and of these few the Water Vole is the only British representative.
As a whole the Rodents may be said to be vegetarians; but the Rats are omnivorous, and the Water Vole though mainly herbivorous takes a little animal food.
Linnaeus, following Ray, described the Water Vole as having webbed feet, but this is incorrect, though the toes of the hinder foot are connected at their base.
The Bank Vole is much more agile than the Field Vole, and not so much given to burrowing.
The general appearance of the Field Vole is so different from that of a Mouse that it should be obvious at a glance that they are not very closely related.
The extent of the molt line, if the vole was molting, was recorded.
In Kansas the prairie vole and the cotton rat were hosts to Laelaps kochi, and it occurred on Microtus pennsylvanicus at Ithaca, New York, and on M.
In both places the prairie vole was the most common mammal, but in the field of clover three deer mice (P.
The testes of the prairie vole descend into the scrotum in the breeding season.
The commonest flea on the prairie vole is Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes; it averages 1.
Other fleas on this vole are Orchopeas leucopus, Orchopeas howardii, Nosopsyllus fasciatus, Epitedia wenmanni, and Rectofrontia fraterna.
The prairie vole spends most of its time in an elaborate system of tunnels (some entirely below the ground) and in almost hidden galleries in the dense grass.
The vole makes a network of paths through the grass, and constructs its own burrows which lead to its nests and food stores.
The water-vole is a very good swimmer, although its toes are not webbed, and its fur is so close and so glossy that it throws off the water just like the feathers on a duck's back.
She felt at them, and then she said, 'On vous a vole encore ici, Madame Victoire; vous avez mis de telles et telles choses dans une telle et telle boite.
It will be very long before the water-vole ceases to be called a water-rat; but until that time comes, an innocent animal will continue to be persecuted for a guilty one.
This vole evidently is limited in Harding County to habitats of dense grass and forbs adjacent to water.
The prairie vole is the most abundant of the three microtines that are known from Harding County.
I can give you my word, though, that the vole was not happy one bit.
The little bank-vole was dimly aware of rolling under a big, warm, live shape.
Our vole hopped promptly towards the other vole, and made out that the seeds were his; but before any kind of ultimatum could be delivered, a twig fell, as twigs will sometimes, for no special reason that one can see.
The noise it made in that stilly wood was astonishing, and ere the twig had reached the earth there wasn't a bank-vole above ground.
And if a learned native had come along the road at that moment--on tiptoe, of course--he would have said the viper had hypnotized friend vole with fear.
Wherefore that vole made haste to quit station, so to speak.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vole" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: animal; antelope; armadillo; bat; elephant; hare; horse; kangaroo; mammal; opossum; pig; rat
