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The bank vole acts as a reservoir of infection for the Puumala virus, which can infect humans, causing a haemorrhagic fever known as nephropathia epidemica and, in extreme cases, even death. [11] Although this hantavirus has co-evolved with its host , its presence among populations seems to decrease their over-winter survival rates.
Voles outwardly resemble several other small animals. Moles, gophers, mice, rats and even shrews have similar characteristics and behavioral tendencies. Voles thrive on small plants yet, like shrews, they will eat dead animals and, like mice and rats, they can live on almost any nut or fruit. In addition, voles target plants more than most ...
Anatolian blind mole-rat; Armenian birch mouse; B. Balkan snow vole; Bank vole; Black rat; ... Sandy blind mole-rat; Short-tailed field vole; Siberian flying squirrel;
Bank vole, Clethrionomys glareolus; Genus: Microtus. Field vole, ... The hedgehogs are easily recognised by their spines while gymnures look more like large rats.
Family: Cricetidae (hamsters, voles, and kin) European water vole, Arvicola amphibius LC globally, [7] EN in Great Britain; Short-tailed field vole, Microtus agrestis LC [8] Common vole, Microtus arvalis LC [9] Orkney vole, M. a. orcadensis VU [6] Bank vole, Myodes glareolus LC [10] Family: Muridae (mice, rats, and kin) Wood mouse
Red squirrel Bobak marmot Bank vole Common vole Striped field mouse Eurasian harvest mouse. Rodents make up the largest order of mammals, with over 40% of mammalian species. They have two incisors in the upper and lower jaw which grow continually and must be kept short by gna
Bank vole, Clethrionomys glareolus NE introduced; Family: Cricetidae. ... The hedgehogs are easily recognised by their spines while gymnures look more like large rats.
Root vole, Microtus oeconomus LC (one lower jaw found in 1970 [4]) Sibling vole, Microtus levis LC; European pine vole, Microtus subterraneus LC; Genus: Myopus. Wood lemming, Myopus schisticolor LC (first found in 2019) [4] Genus: Ondatra. Muskrat, Ondatra zibethicus LC (introduced) Family: Muridae (mice, rats, voles, gerbils, hamsters, etc ...