Meadow voles like meadows; long-tailed voles like meadows, shrubby thickets, and mountain slopes; tundra (or root) voles like wet meadows and bogs at various elevations. They are chiefly ...

The rodent is a vole, a small burrowing rodent widely unloved by those who prize perfect lawns. The sort of cute but semi-crazed-looking critter that had just dispatched it is a long-tailed weasel. Or ...