What is "voles"

Usage examples of "voles".

When mice, voles, and velvety-furred shrews, who were used to evading foxes, scurried into holes burrowed just below the surface, Wolf chased gerbils, hamsters, and long-eared, prickly hedgehogs.

Squirming through nests of voles and mice, under tree roots for hibernating newts and frogs, and darting after small birds too chilled and hungry to flee, the ravaging horde of eight or ten small white weasels closed in.

And these communities get larger after snakes, the local top predator of voles, go into hibernation.

The first of them, squirming like a snake hunting voles, was King Carus himself.