Sentence examples for large vole from inspiring English sources

In particular, the occurrence of the large vole Mimomys pliocaenicus has important biochronological significance.

After a few sips from the mug woke up my brain, I realized that the furry blur running in and out was not a large vole but a small weasel, followed by its larger parent.

High year-round fecundity and early maturation results in large vole populations that are heavily predated upon by owls and other predators.

But yet again our (very large) "voles" have been at them, so Saturday morning ( a muggy 5.45am with the awareness that these early starts, too, will soon pass) I start lifting plants rather than picking pods.

Dolphins in London, falcons in Cardiff – it's amazing what you can find in the city Water voles The inspiration for Ratty in The Wind in the Willows – not to mention Britain's largest vole and fastest-declining mammal – is the water vole.

This increased silica content caused large reductions in vole growth rate, so that the voles reared on high-silica diets of D. caespitosa were losing 0.5% of body mass per day, while the voles on low-silica diets maintained a positive growth rate, gaining 0.25% of body mass per day (figure 2).

Animals in large groups (>five voles per cage) were further separated into another six laboratory cages to aid separation of blood lines across reintroduction sites.

Sites of large colonies of voles were, however, identified in subalpine meadows in the mountains west of the valley, but no trapping was done there.

For example, in 2007, human infections were frequently reported in the region (Fig. 2), but PUUV prevalence was only moderate (19%) in the large number of voles sampled (n = 113).

In large river floodlands, water vole are common prey.

If cancer is a very rare reason for death of mole-voles, a large increase in the lifespan by SkQ1 becomes possible.