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vole
free-living, small rodent often described as a country rat because of its resemblance to a rat and its disinclination to associate with humans. They are hoarders, live in burrows and eat plant material. Like lemmings, also members of the subfamily Microtinae, they experience massive surges in population, followed by mass migrations and very heavy mortalities. There are several genera including Arvicola, Clethrionomys and Microtus.
vole bacillus
see mycobacteriummicroti.
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It is illegal to move a sleeping water vole and so plans to reconfigure the brook faced months of delays if ecologists failed to move them on.
VOLE COLONY FINALLY MOVES OUT by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
Now a raft of regulations mean that, for example, if a water vole mother is feeding her young, developers have to back off for four weeks and let them escape the area before work can continue.
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Photo: Alan Price, Gatehouse Studio The bank vole is one of Britain''s most abundant small animals.
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