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Thursday, February 23, 2012
AN IRISH VOLE
A news story we published yesterday, includes a reference to a rodent species called "the black vole" living in Ireland. This is a regional name for the European pine vole (Microtus subterraneus)which - as far as we know - doesn't live in Ireland. Presumably the original authors meant the bank vole (Myodes glareolus; formerly Clethrionomys glareolus)which has been introduced to Ireland and is colonising much of the south and southwest.
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In November Sahar Dimus, our guide on four CFZ Sumatra expeditions, died of liver failure leaving a widow Lucy and four Children. On the 2nd November, Dezyama D. Sangma, wife of our friend and colleague Dipu Marak, our collaborator on the 2010 Indian expedition died, leaving her grieving husband and two small children.
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I covered a different story covering the same study. It looks at the bank vole, as noted here, not some kind of black vole.
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