It is equally agile and ferocious, and ought to be encouraged, as it vents its ferocity largely upon Voles and Moles, which it can pursue underground.
This sexually-immature tapeworm infests many other rodents, especially the voles (Arvicolidæ).
Howorth, the Lion has been found together with northern Volesat Bicetre, near Paris.
But the Voles (Arvicola) have scarcely spread beyond the region of fields and cultivated ground.
Neither pity the voles nor scorn the weasel; both are only fulfilling their destinies in an ages-old plan.
If you are fortunate enough to be in an area where a hay meadow is being irrigated, you will see the meadow voles (meadow mice) being flooded out of their homes.
Some differences in structure separate the voles from the true mice and rats; they also differ in their food, the voles being almost entirely vegetable feeders.
The volesand I grew to be quite good friends; but, as the colder weather would soon be hindering my daily visits, our friendship would have to cease unless I could bring my small pets indoors.
Voles have an acute sense of smell, as I learn in this way.
My ultimate aim being to obtain some baby voles to be trained into absolute tameness, I set to work to secure a mate, and placed the globe as before, baited with tempting food.
These young are similar in size and appearance to the smallestvoles caught in live-traps apart from their mothers.
Size distribution of prairie voles in a year-around sample, including all the measurements of voles taken over a three-year period.
Weights of the newborn voles could not be correlated with season, size, age of females, or food conditions.
That the voles are not monogamous in habits was demonstrated when the same female was often trapped in association with either of two males.
Perhaps such losses are normal, at least on the study area where voles are live-trapped regularly.
For the first several days of each trapping period, the voles caught were mostly adults previously marked and, presumably, conditioned to the grain bait.
Many of the newborn voles were marked by toe-clipping, according to the same system used for adults.
Weight in free-living prairie voles in a year-around sample from juveniles to large adults (grouped in length-classes of 6 mm.
Although the grooming that occurs between voles that are resting in nests seems to have no direct significance as sexual behavior, somewhat similar actions constitute part of the mating pattern.
Changing numbers and composition (according to size of individual) in a population of voles on an area of approximately one half an acre that was intensively sampled with live-traps over periods of months.
As has been indicated by various authors, male voles reach sexual maturity later than females.
Two or more voles caught at a given spot regardless of whether they were found in the same trap simultaneously, or trapped separately within a short time, usually were completely tolerant of each other.
Newborn voles were obtained when females that were caught in live-traps produced their litters before they were found and released.
Two important kinds of prey--voles and grasshoppers of the genus Melanoplus--were not found at all in the smallest size groups of snakes and comprised increasing percentages in the food of the larger size groups.
The voles being diurnal, and having habitat preferences similar to those of the racer, are especially subject to attack, but only large adult racers are capable of swallowing a full grown vole.
No nest cavities were discernible where the eggs were found, but elsewhere in the field tunnels of moles (Scalopus aquaticus) and prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) were exposed by the plow.
Kinds of Prey Throughout the range of the racer small mammals make up an important portion of the food, and the bulk of those eaten are voles (Microtus sp.
Then, when some farmers are half ruined, he has Royal Commissions to find out why the voles have increased so much.
Again about a minute's pause, and three bank-voles came out together.
It was not, however; but it had another peculiarity, as the volesfound out later on.
Voles of the genus Microtus vary in the structure of the baculum almost as much as do the lemmings.
The baculum in lemmings as a group cannot then be considered more primitive than in voles as a group, although the voles are usually considered to be more advanced.
The volesin which the molars are least hypsodont are thus considered primitive.
Monograph of the voles and lemmings (Microtinae), living and extinct, Vol.
Hinton thought also that the murine ancestors of microtines had shorter incisors and that the backward extension of the incisors in the voles is a more ancient feature than the hypsodonty of the molars.
When the drought dries the meadow, the voles come to the deep, plank-walled spring at the upper end, to drink.
But one day I came upon two of my voles struggling for life in the water, exhausted and well-nigh dead.
This species, which inhabits Siberia, measures about twelve centimetres in length, but during summer and autumnVoles accomplish an amount of work which is surprising having regard to their size.
There were many well-defined and well-trodden paths on the ground, by which the Voles pass from one hole to another.
The Voles had destroyed the entire crop in a single night.
Thinking it had been stolen he kept watch for the thief; but suddenly, to his great astonishment, hosts of Voles appeared and set to work to carry off the second load.
Mr. Bernard[17] has described the interesting way in which the Rook hunts voles or field-mice in Thuringia.
The moment having arrived to think about winter, the Voles spread themselves about the steppe.
The hunt was very successful, and no more voles were seen in that field during the winter.
In trapping mice and voles only those traps should be used in which the animals are caught alive, or the fleas will have left their hosts before they can be secured and examined.
So also in the case of mice, rats and voles with holes and runs in the same hedgerow, the parasites usually peculiar to one are not uncommonly found on the others.
In addition to these species pine voles and a jumping mouse were trapped on days after the first.
Short-tailed shrews, more white-footed mice, and pine voles were trapped on following days.
More voles and a short-tailed shrew were taken on later days.
Other Pennsylvania voles as well as a lemming-vole, a prairie vole, and several young ground squirrels were secured on later nights by the same trap-line.
Other prairie voles and white-footed mice were taken on later nights, as well as one Pennsylvania vole and one house mouse.
A vole was seen to cross a road in a small orchard on July 15; a trap was set and two Pennsylvania voles secured, one a young of the year.
Bosworth Smith): “You will remember that a few years ago certain parts of the country (Scotland) were infested with voles to such an extent that the sheep would not eat grass over thousands of acres of moorland.
Passed as good coin by Voles, Jones had nothing to fear from any man or woman in London, for the eye of Voles was unerring, the ear of Voles ditto, the mind of Voles balanced like a jeweller's scales.
I received your daughter's letters back fromVoles yesterday--Let's be plain with one another.
Voles had taken up his hat again, and he stood now by the table, hat in hand, looking exactly what he was, a criminal on his defence.
The members of the Senior Conservative Club Camp had left him unimpressed, and the wild beast Voles had bequeathed to him a lively contempt for the mental powers of the man he had succeeded.
Voles was the first great difficulty, and lo, it seemed, that he was about not only to destroy it, but turn it to a profit.
Why had this woman come to him this morning so quickly after the defeat of Voles who held her letters?
Voles drummed on the desk with his fingers, then he took a sheet of paper and an envelope from a drawer.
Voles would swear anything, and their case would stand good on the proved fact that he, Jones, was a swindler.
Voles is the key to the lot of them, and I have Voles completely under my thumb.
Voles threw the pen down with a laugh--it was his last in that room.
It did not matter to him in the least whetherVoles gave Rochester away or not, yet he had fought Voles with all the feeling of the man who is attacked, not of the man who is defending another man from attack.
Jones felt no vindictiveness towardsVoles now; disgust, such as he might have felt towards a vulture or a cormorant, but no vindictiveness.
Voles had returned eight thousand pounds; as an agent he had received twenty five per cent.
Then the voles or water rats that live in the depths of this truly English forest are not the least curious specimens of animal life to be found therein.
My country readers, who love nature, must have noticed the voles at this queer performance.
These are the questions thosevoles seem trying in vain to solve.
One very remarkable characteristic of the voles is the structure of their molar teeth.
The voles constitute quite a large group of rodents, including several animals which are popularly ranked among the mice.
But in all accounts I have had from the people of the Dakota nation the women have always said that they never took away any beans from the voles without making some payment in kind.
The voles dig the large beans and store them in considerable quantities in storage places which they hollow out in the ground and which they cover over with sticks and leaves and earth.
The people said they did not take away all the beans from the voles as it would be wicked to loot the animals' food stores and leave the animals to starve after they had worked to gather them.
The people of the Dakota nation speak of the wood-mice orvoles by the designation of "Hintunka people.
The runs of these wheat-harvesting voles are eight to twelve inches below the ground, and are connected with the surface by vertical holes.
Neither the voles nor any other of these interesting farmers and warehousemen used to get much credit for what they did.
I love you as the dragon-flies do, as the wagtails do, as the water voles do; I am you and you are me.
The supplies in the granaries were, however, hardly needed: the winter was exceptionally mild, and the voles were generally able to obtain duckweed and watercress for food.
A family of voles swam in and out of the shallows opposite my hiding place; but none of the little animals approached the buttress near the stakes.
With desperate efforts, the voles endeavoured to pull the rat into the water, where, as they knew, their advantage would be greater than on land.
Maddened by the scent of a few drops of blood coming from his wound, the adult voles chased him from the burrow, and drove him out into the field.
The water-voles and the moorhens were unusually alert as they swam hither and thither in the little bays along the edge of the current.
Leaving her cubs asleep, she moved along the passage, determined, if possible, to explore the thickets in hope of finding a young rabbit or a few field-voles wherewith to satisfy her increasing hunger.
Food had gradually become scarce even for the few hundredvoles that yet remained.
It seemed that the whole colony ofvoles was being exterminated.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "voles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
