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2 unusual facts about Vole


Jonathan Croall

During this time he wrote about education, the arts, health, history, and the environment for The Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Times, New Society and Vole magazine.

Souris, Prince Edward Island

These early settlers experienced several plagues of field mice in the surrounding area during the 1720s-1760s (the name is French for "mouse").


American Kestrel

American Kestrels feed largely on small animals such as grasshoppers, dragonflies, lizards, mice, and voles.

Animals of Yellowstone

Squirrel, Rabbit, vole, mice, and shrew species are common, but many are nocturnal and rarely seen by visitors.

Beach vole

Muskeget Island, between Nantucket, Massachusetts and Marthas Vineyard is the only known home of the beach vole, also known as the Muskeget vole.

Charles Alverson

In 1980, Alverson was managing editor of the British environmentalist magazine Vole, financed by Terry Jones of Monty Python.

Devil's Gate Pass

Numerous other animals have been spotted in the area around the pass including American Badger, Black Bear, Chipmunk, Cougar, Coyote, Rabbit, Rubber Boa, Sage Grouse, and Vole.

European water vole

In the comic novel and film Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, one of the characters, Urk, refers to the subject of his unrequited love, Elfine Starkadder, as his little water vole.

A water vole named Ratty is a leading character in the 1908 children's book Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame: the locality used in the book is believed to be Moor Copse in Berkshire, England, and the character's name "Ratty" has become widely associated with the species and their riverbank habitat, as well as the misconception that they are a species of rat.

In the Kingdom of the Blind

-- points to a rugby player --> (Minister Vitari)
Damian London (Centauri Regent)
Victor Love (Telepath)
Francis X. McCarthy (Minister Vole)
Ian Ogilvy (Lord Jano)

Sin Nombre virus

These include El Moro Canyon virus associated with the western harvest mouse, Reithrodontomys megalotis, Tula virus with Microtus arvalis and M. rossiaemeridionalis, Rio Segundo virus with the Mexican harvest mouse, R. mexicanus, Isla Vista virus with the California vole, M. californicus, and Prospect Hill-like viruses in Microtus species.

Smith's vole

This vole is named after Richard Gordon Smith, (1858–1918) who, after falling out with his wife, traveled the world hunting for animals and keeping a record of his travels and discoveries in eight large leather-bound diaries.

Tyup Game Reserve

Mountain meadows and rock outcrops are inhabited by Central Asiatic Frog, European green toad, Dione Rat Snake, Asymblepharus alaicus, Gloydius, narrow-skulled vole, Silver Mountain Vole, shrew, Chukar Partridge, Daurian Partridge, Common Quail, Rock Pigeon, etc.


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