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| Rock Vole prefers damp, mossy, rocky talus slopes and other areas where there are rocky outcroppings. Little is known about this creature as only a few specimens have been collected. The Rock Vole is mainly active during the daytime and will spend its time foraging for plant material. The House Mouse is perhaps the most recognized member of the order Rodentia. It has become an extremely common pest throughout Canada and North America. It is easily found anywhere and everywhere. The House Mouse is very colonial and social by nature, and mainly nocturnal in its activity. The Meadow Vole has a peppered appearance, with a brownish-grey coat, dark feet, and a long tail that is dark above and paler below. Their hair below is often gray and silver tipped. The Meadow Vole prefers open areas of long grass and is common throughout the Algonquin Highlands area. They live in beaver meadows and anywhere they can find a bit of long grass. They are active all year round, and travel along runways that they construct by biting grass off at ground level and flattening it to for pathways. The Meadow Vole is also more active at night. Reproduction occurs at astonishing rates. Each female is capable of having three or four litters per year, averaging over six young each litter. Females reach sexual maturity when they are only three weeks old, and can give birth to their first litter twenty days later. They construct round, grass-lined nests. Voles rarely live more than a year, many living only for a month or two before being eaten by predators or falling victim to disease. |
(Family Muridae)
Meadow Vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus)
Rock Vole (Microtus chrotorrhinus)
House Mouse (Mus musculus)
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