Vole
noun
A small animal that looks like a rat and lives mostly underground.
The gardener found a family of voles living beneath his shed.
noun
In card games, the maximum number of points that can be scored in a single round.
In the last round, he made a vole and won the game.
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Colloquial
noun
A small animal that looks like a rat and lives mostly underground.
The gardener found a family of voles living beneath his shed.
noun
In card games, the maximum number of points that can be scored in a single round.
In the last round, he made a vole and won the game.
Usage tips
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Habitat Clue
Real voles live underground, which differentiates them from other rodents you might see more often, like squirrels.
The vole is seldom seen due to its subterranean habitat.
Pro Tip 2/3Not a Pest
While 'vole' sounds like 'mole' or 'rat', voles are not typically considered pests and have less negative connotations.
Voles, unlike rats, tend to have a neutral image in society.
Pro Tip 3/3Appearance Matter
Voles are often confused with mice but can be distinguished by their shorter tails, small eyes, and hidden ears.
The creature in the garden was a vole, not a mouse; you could tell by its features.
Pro Tip 1/3Habitat Clue
Real voles live underground, which differentiates them from other rodents you might see more often, like squirrels.
The vole is seldom seen due to its subterranean habitat.
Pro Tip 2/3Not a Pest
While 'vole' sounds like 'mole' or 'rat', voles are not typically considered pests and have less negative connotations.
Voles, unlike rats, tend to have a neutral image in society.
Pro Tip 3/3Appearance Matter
Voles are often confused with mice but can be distinguished by their shorter tails, small eyes, and hidden ears.
The creature in the garden was a vole, not a mouse; you could tell by its features.
Pro Tip 1/3Habitat Clue
Real voles live underground, which differentiates them from other rodents you might see more often, like squirrels.
The vole is seldom seen due to its subterranean habitat.
Pro Tip 2/3Not a Pest
While 'vole' sounds like 'mole' or 'rat', voles are not typically considered pests and have less negative connotations.
Voles, unlike rats, tend to have a neutral image in society.
Pro Tip 3/3Appearance Matter
Voles are often confused with mice but can be distinguished by their shorter tails, small eyes, and hidden ears.
The creature in the garden was a vole, not a mouse; you could tell by its features.
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Safari Live - Day 265 PIPE...
ours are not just design for animals to come and drink there is lot of things which has to be considered for example there has to be available cover for in case if the Predators wants to hide that is very much important so if you can check here the water vole does have some hiding areas for the Predators to be
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Saving Water Voles From...
and just how important these little mammals are so tell us a little bit about the work you do here with the water bowls so we breed the water voles we'll go on to different sites and we'll trap them if they're trying to do construction work and obviously the waterfalls aren't allowed to be there anymore
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The Wonders of Urban...
were perfect because nobody was thinking about them and now danielle has studied rodents for more than two decades that includes field mice prairie voles and the african pouched rat a species that lives in sub-saharan africa african pouched rats are among the world's largest rodents they can grow as
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Do Animals Feel Empathy?...
but lately they've discovered that certain animals could be much better at reading and reacting to the emotional states of others than we previously thought prairie voles which live in bonded pairs will go to great lengths to groom and nurture a mate that's showing signs of stress
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Nick Bostrom: Humanity's...
It might just be a simple hormone or something that could do this. It's been done in voles. You can engineer a prairie vole to become monogamous when it's naturally polygamous. It's just a single gene. Might be more complicated in humans, but perhaps not that much.
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Search and Rescue, Part...
working with them she hopes that Borneo's orangutangs might avoid extinction or vole owner has been around long enough to know that not every story has a happy ending sadly after his terrifying fall Samanta was lost his fight for life we did
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Why do animals have such...
When it comes to size, it's often, but not always, the case that larger species have a longer lifespan than smaller ones. For instance, an elephant or whale will live much longer than a mouse, rat, or vole,
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Inside the Tripper's...
perception and imagination his brain is producing that inner experienced image of the world it can be a little story a little film a little we can see persons or objects vole invaders
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Raising Cute 'Killer'...
this time the vole escapes finally into the field to put training into practice they go into the outside world with skills that basic instinct can't provide
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Genetic Code for...
prairie voles are among the most doting mammals on earth like some humans males and female prairie voles formed lifelong
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 265 PIPE...
ours are not just design for animals to come and drink there is lot of things which has to be considered for example there has to be available cover for in case if the Predators wants to hide that is very much important so if you can check here the water vole does have some hiding areas for the Predators to be
Video examples
Saving Water Voles From...
and just how important these little mammals are so tell us a little bit about the work you do here with the water bowls so we breed the water voles we'll go on to different sites and we'll trap them if they're trying to do construction work and obviously the waterfalls aren't allowed to be there anymore
Video examples
The Wonders of Urban...
were perfect because nobody was thinking about them and now danielle has studied rodents for more than two decades that includes field mice prairie voles and the african pouched rat a species that lives in sub-saharan africa african pouched rats are among the world's largest rodents they can grow as
Video examples
Do Animals Feel Empathy?...
but lately they've discovered that certain animals could be much better at reading and reacting to the emotional states of others than we previously thought prairie voles which live in bonded pairs will go to great lengths to groom and nurture a mate that's showing signs of stress
Video examples
Nick Bostrom: Humanity's...
It might just be a simple hormone or something that could do this. It's been done in voles. You can engineer a prairie vole to become monogamous when it's naturally polygamous. It's just a single gene. Might be more complicated in humans, but perhaps not that much.
Video examples
Search and Rescue, Part...
working with them she hopes that Borneo's orangutangs might avoid extinction or vole owner has been around long enough to know that not every story has a happy ending sadly after his terrifying fall Samanta was lost his fight for life we did
Video examples
Why do animals have such...
When it comes to size, it's often, but not always, the case that larger species have a longer lifespan than smaller ones. For instance, an elephant or whale will live much longer than a mouse, rat, or vole,
Video examples
Inside the Tripper's...
perception and imagination his brain is producing that inner experienced image of the world it can be a little story a little film a little we can see persons or objects vole invaders
Video examples
Raising Cute 'Killer'...
this time the vole escapes finally into the field to put training into practice they go into the outside world with skills that basic instinct can't provide
Video examples
Genetic Code for...
prairie voles are among the most doting mammals on earth like some humans males and female prairie voles formed lifelong
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Quote examples
Geraldine McCaughrean
British Novelist
My brother, whom I adored, typed out a children's book illustrated by himself... at the age of 14. My sister, with whom I always shared a double bed, had that effortless superiority of someone six years older and anxious to show it. But we were each as shy as voles. It seemed safer to keep to each other's company.
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Geraldine McCaughrean
British Novelist
My brother, whom I adored, typed out a children's book illustrated by himself... at the age of 14. My sister, with whom I always shared a double bed, had that effortless superiority of someone six years older and anxious to show it. But we were each as shy as voles. It seemed safer to keep to each other's company.
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