European water vole
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The European water vole or northern water vole is a semi-aquatic rodent. It is often informally called the water rat, though it only superficially resembles a true rat. Water voles have rounder noses
Water Vole on Boot Hill
Skull of a European water vole
Water vole, Ore Mountains, Germany
'Release pens' being set up for water voles that had been bred in captivity set to be released to bolster the numbers of a colony in Ringwood, Hampshire
The Wind in the Willows
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The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by the British novelist Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. It tells the story of Mole, Ratty and Badger as they try to help Mr. Toad after he becom
European water vole
…to the River Bulbourne in Hemel Hempstead as part of a three-year plan. A water vole named "Ratty" is a leading character in the 1908 children's book The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame: the locality used in the book is believed to be Moor Copse in Berkshire, England, and the character's name "Ratty" has become widely…
Cover of the first edition (with illustration by W. Graham Robertson)