Another trap held a very jumpy bank vole, which was also weighed before it was returned, unharmed, to the undergrowth. |
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The water vole, fast heading for extinction in Britain, can still be found at Clifton Ings in York, according to an environmental group. |
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Rats have quite large ears unlike voles, so Ratty is in fact a water vole not a rat. |
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The water vole, whose numbers have been steadily diminishing over the years, was previously believed to be fond of just lowland habitats. |
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This part of the National Park is home to some of the rarest creatures in the country such as adders, otters, goshawks and water vole. |
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They are creatures of habit and prefer the odd water vole or sparrow any day to a lamb that is half its size. |
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As a result a very rare species of water vole will be protected while the business park is being built. |
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If conditions aren't right, our vole populations will never get back to former levels. |
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The vole population has been reduced by mink, a ruthless predator which has escaped from fur farms. |
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The work of Viitala et al. indicated that kestrels utilize UV-visible vole scent-marks to locate areas rich in rodents. |
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The estimate for vole abundance is expressed as the number of voles per 100 trap nights and combines field and bank vole numbers. |
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One hundred eighty million years ago, a small, hairy animal resembling a shrew or a vole evolved a new way to care for her developing offspring. |
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To all intents and purposes he seemed asleep but his acute hearing would be attuned for the rustling of a field vole moving through the grass. |
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This habitat attracts many small mammals, including the field vole, the barn owl's favorite prey. |
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Pokki finds a similar effect in a field vole metapopulation inhabiting an archipelago. |
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She said the pond would support a variety of species, including the nationally protected great crested newt and water vole. |
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Many people mistake the endangered water vole for the brown rat and accidentally poison them or disturb their burrows. |
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And conservationists believe a large-scale cull could be the best way to stop the water vole becoming extinct. |
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In kangaroo rats and some vole species, investigators have found that male brains have a slightly larger hippocampus. |
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For example, eagles are able to spot a vole or lizard from more than 400 m away. |
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Using research materials, they find out more about this mammal and use the information to create a water vole fact file. |
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It seems odd that the hawk owl should emerge as a vole specialist at all, given the owl's strong physical resemblance to birds that prey on other birds. |
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The other, a type of water vole, wasn't present before 500,000 years ago. |
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Cameron said the EA was worried that some of the habitat of the water vole might have been destroyed. |
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Immortalised as Ratty in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, the water vole is Britain's fastest-declining mammal. |
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After swimming, the water vole often sits upright on the bankside, feeding on a water plant or washing its face. |
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Commonly called the water rat, this largest member of the vole family can commonly be found in slow rivers, ponds, streams an ditches. |
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Sons grew up to become less likely to form bonds with mates, making another generation of single-parent vole families more likely. |
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Among the creatures expected to blossom as a result would be the tiny water vole, whose populations were decimated by the introduction of the mink from North America. |
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One captive meadow vole had 17 litters during one year, totaling 83 young. |
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Candidates include the water vole, highland wildcat, fox, bottlenose dolphin, red squirrel and soprano pipistrelle bat. |
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With most diseases spread by rodents, the mouse or rat or vole is only an intermediary for fleas and lice and the like. |
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If you were rotten, you might be a vole or an asp or a dung beetle. |
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Little human creatures will no doubt find the adventure playground with its water vole tunnels a highlight. |
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There is now rather compelling data that one of the factors leading to the demise of the water vole is indeed the influence of this imported alien species, the American mink. |
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Here we describe a blond coat color mutation in the meadow vole that arose in a captive breeding colony established from wild-caught animals from southern Illinois. |
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Meadow vole populations are kept high by its ability to breed prolifically. |
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Orchardists and farmers should recognize that these predators are beneficial as they provide vole control at no cost. |
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However, at Blacktail, after several years of vole exclusion, legumes became more common in exclosures than in control plots that were accessible to voles. |
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Indirect evidence suggests that changes in prairie vole grazing patterns and reproductive physiology may be in part responsible for vegetational changes. |
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With his friend Squiffy, the water vole, and using the advice of friend Billy the goat, Dewi tries to nurse and rescue a burned rat named Bomber. |
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In 2001, nearly 350 water vole were recorded on the Chess. |
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Predation by mink, which have bred prolifically since escaping from fur farms in the 1970s, have added to vole woes. |
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The yellow-cheeked vole, for example, shared its south-eastern United States habitat with the eastern pack rat in late Pleistocene times. |
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These peridomestic bank vole harborages provide a refuge against most predators and shelter from flooding during times of heavy rainfall. |
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I've never even seen a water vole before, but apparently I have got a field vole living in my compost bin at home. |
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It can disturb wildlife, including rare creatures, such as the water vole. |
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After having triggered the explosion of the blank cartridge by touching a metal ring around the muzzle, the vole is killed by the massive propulsion of the gas jet. |
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Sutherland Lyall, the AR's diligent web vole, plashes questingly through the autumn mire of cyberspace. |
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The special-status wildlife species that may be present in the study area are the least weasel, rock vole, southern bog lemming, wolverine, woodland caribou, Canada lynx, monarch butterfly, pygmy shrew and polar bear. |
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Most mammals are of the smaller variety, and include meadow vole, common shrew, long-tailed weasel, American badger, red fox, coyote and eastern cottontail rabbit. |
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Others include the water vole, pipistrelle bat, grey partridge, aquatic warbler, sand lizard, great crested newt and the natterjack toad. |
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It will also wander nomadically in search of better food supplies during years when vole populations are low. |
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Further, the finding of these vole PyVs may suggest that the wukipolyomavirus ancestor might have existed in a rodent-like animal. |
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The rare Gaspé shrew and the rock vole burrow in talus slopes of the steep-sided valleys of the Northeast Margaree, which is also home to pine marten, lynx, and moose. |
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Lyon did not take the masked shrew, the meadow vole or the meadow jumping mouse. |
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It is therefore possible that, within the areas frequented by boreal owls, the heather vole inhabits microhabitats where the snow melts more quickly, thereby making it more vulnerable to predation at certain times. |
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Kodiak's native mammals are the Kodiak bear, northern river otter, short-tailed weasel, little brown bat, and tundra vole. |
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Inland the Orkney vole, a distinct subspecies of the common vole introduced by Neolithic humans, is an endemic. |
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Seasonal variation in mycophagy by the western red-backed vole, Clethrionomys californicus, in southwestern Oregon. |
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The field vole is a typical herbivorous rodent and feeds on grasses, herbs, root tubers, moss, and other vegetation, and gnaws on bark during the winter. |
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The field vole lives on the soil surface and also feeds on plant bark. |
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The meadow vole differs from the pine vole in that he is bigger, lives primarily above ground or in shallow surface runways, and his feeding is more visible. |
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The introduction of alien stoats just prior to 2015, a natural predator of the common vole and thus of the Orkney vole, may be harming native bird populations. |
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Rather than make a fruitless comparison of food plants, it is perhaps preferable to simply categorize the vole as a herbivore and the field mouse as a granivore. |
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The prairie vole is monogamous and forms a lifelong pair bond. |
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Stig will track for signs of water vole life enabling conservationists to monitor the progress of this new colony at Thorley Wash in Hertfordshire. |
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He caught that wood mouse or, more likely because of the grassy habitat, a field vole, and flicked it up with his teeth to get it clear of the grass. |
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