noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
water vole
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
water
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Circumstantial evidence suggests that this animal is a significant problem for water voles .
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Without doing so, we could miss vital factors of detriment both to water voles and other wetland wildlife.
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Rob Strachan stresses that the water vole survey is the first of its kind.
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Meanwhile, Strachan views the water vole as an indicator of wetland habitat quality, and he looks forward with little optimism.
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The muskrat is a swamp-dwelling rodent something like a large water vole .
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A water vole swam vigorously across from a little island, its round face and bright eyes showing above the water.
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There were rivers he visited as a child where he could sit and watch water voles every day.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Barn owls' favourite prey are short-tailed voles, which live in hedgerows along the sides of roads.
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Cats, too, are sensitive to ultrasonic frequencies and can hear mice and voles in hidden places.
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Male meadow voles have bigger hippocampi than females and are better at finding and remembering their way through mazes.
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Of the vole molars, 2 out of 18 split longitudinally, 12 disappeared without trace, and only 4 were left intact.
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The tundra is widely grazed by mammals, especially voles and lemmings that burrow in the undergrowth.
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These excursions in the dark were like a door to another world-the secret world of mice and shrews and moles and voles.
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Visitors also can see coyotes, chipmunks, raccoons, marmots and vole .