{"id":3549,"date":"2015-08-06T18:18:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T23:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/?p=3549"},"modified":"2017-03-25T11:05:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T16:05:53","slug":"crazy-vole-running-in-circles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/crazy-vole-running-in-circles\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Vole Running in Circles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As my friend left our house recently, I noticed this little vole running in circles on the driveway.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what was wrong with this little guy but he continued his compulsive circling until my husband scooped him up in a bin and took him back into the woods to release him. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GHMlYEyifJY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Voles aren&#8217;t exactly the most interesting wildlife creatures I&#8217;ve ever seen in my backyard, but I&#8217;m adding them to my blog here just for fun.<\/p>\n<p>Called <em>Microtus pennsylvanicus<\/em> by biologists and people who like to show off, voles are also known as meadow mice or field mice. They are mouse-like in appearance but have short tails and long cylindrical bodies up to 5 to 7 inches long including tail. Their fur is brown with a lighter silver or gray belly.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4659\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4659\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"boxer\" title=\"Red Vole\" href=\"http:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red_vole.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red_vole.gif\" alt=\"Red Vole\" width=\"1024\" height=\"637\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4659\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red Vole<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Voles make their homes in moist grasslands, woods, and my attic. They are active year-round and throughout the day and night, foraging and eating frequently. During their downtime, they hang out in nests created from piles of mixed grasses, sedges, and weeds, located either above or below ground. Radiating out from these nests are networks of shallow burrows through which the voles run in search of food. <\/p>\n<p>Dinner consists of grasses, sedges, and other green things in the garden, with an occasional insect or snail, supplemented in times of great hunger by a scavenged animal carcass or even one of its own family members. In winter, seeds and tubers are stored in nests and burrows.<\/p>\n<p>All that eating was used to good purpose: voles procreate at an astounding rate, producing up to 17 litters per year with four to six young per litter. <\/p>\n<p>My research did not turn up any possible reasons for the circling but I suppose it could be a brain tumor, a virus, or some kind of infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As my friend left our house recently, I noticed this little vole running in circles on the driveway. I don&#8217;t know what was wrong with this little guy but he continued his compulsive circling until my husband scooped him up in a bin and took him back into the woods to release him. Voles aren&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26,24],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-3549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-few-other-things","category-wilmington-wildlife","tag-animals-in-my-back-yard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3viLY-Vf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7735,"url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/learning-to-ride-leblond-oval-print\/","url_meta":{"origin":3549,"position":0},"title":"Learning to Ride, LeBlond Oval Print","author":"Karen","date":"June 29, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Learning to Ride Le Blond No. 104 Date: 1850\u20131870 Size: 6 3\/4\" \u00d7 5 1\/4\" A young boy learns to ride a goat while members of his family look on. 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