Photo from Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nOkay, so maybe that was an easy question. Especially when you considered the name of today’s animal.\u00a0 That’s right, the European Water Vole is semi-aquatic, which means they enjoy hanging out in the water. Naturally, the webbing helps them swim along at a nice leisurely pace.\u00a0 The Water Vole will actually use the water as a defense mechanism as the entrance to their burrow is usually just below the surface of the water.\u00a0 This is going to make it a little more difficult for a predator to find them and consequently feast on them.<\/p>\n
The burrow of the European Water Vole is quite impressive as the females burrow network can run up to 70 m along the shoreline.\u00a0 Not to be out done, the male’s bachelor burrow can be twice as long as his female counterparts.\u00a0 I see why they want to protect their sweet homes by putting the door underwater.\u00a0 I guess it acts like a moat surrounding our old castles.<\/p>\n
European Water Vole Fast Fact – <\/strong>Although Water Voles are mostly herbivorous, they have been known to feast on insects and on occasion they will chow down on small fish.\u00a0 Usually the fish are dead since a dead fish is a lot easier to catch compared to a live one.<\/p>\nThat does it for our holiday Monday Wild Fact.\u00a0 Now you can go and enjoy the rest of your day and I will see all of you tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hopefully all of you are just taking a break from your exciting long weekend to check out today’s featured animal.\u00a0 Wild Facts is heading across the pond today to check out a small mammal called the European Water Vole.\u00a0 If you enjoy sitting by the river banks (and if you live in Europe) then you may have noticed this mouse-like creature scurrying along.\u00a0 Actually, even if you lived in North America, you may have seen a similar animal appropriately called the North American Water Vole.\u00a0 I don’t know how they come up with these clever names.\u00a0 Anyway, let’s learn a <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,4024],"tags":[348,1922,1925,4025,1924,1926,1923],"yoast_head":"\n
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