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Voles, lemmings and hamsters belong to this family of rodents. It also includes the rats and mice of the New World. It is found mostly in the Northern Hemisphere and the Americas. Vole and lemming numbers can swing sharply from one year to the next. Many dig tunnels.
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Cricetidae
Arvicola amphibius · Least concern
Ratty, the water vole of Kenneth Grahame's 1908 book The Wind in the Willows, made the species famous, along with the mistaken idea that it is a rat. It is in fact a vole, with a rounder nose, chubby face and hairy tail, ears and paws.
Photo: Peter Trimming from Croydon, England (CC BY 2.0)
Cricetidae
Microtus arvalis · Least concern
The common vole lives fast: a female can give birth from her 33rd day of life, and the average lifespan is just 4.5 months. Its numbers boom and crash in three- or five-year cycles, and it feeds buzzards, kestrels and owls. In Britain and Ireland it is found only on Orkney.
Photo: Dieter TD, first upload in de wikipedia on 13:31, 28. Apr 2005 by Dieter TD (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Cricetidae
Phodopus sungorus · Least concern
As winter days shorten, the winter white dwarf hamster's dark coat turns almost entirely white. Peter Simon Pallas first described it as a mouse in 1773. About half the size of a golden hamster, it usually lives one to three years in captivity.
Photo: Dirk Goldhahn (CC BY-SA 2.5)
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