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rat, mouse or vole comparison table

Subject	eat	have breeding season	have number of litters	have Family name	have scientific name	swim	has part	hunt for	have habitat	is a kind of	stay underwater for	eat by	live in	be independent of parents
rodent										mammal
rat, mouse or vole				Family Muridae						rodent
brown lemming				Family Muridae	Lemmus sibericus					rat, mouse or vole
bushy-tailed wood rat				Family Muridae	Neotoma cinerea					rat, mouse or vole
Cascade deer mouse				Family Muridae	Peromyscus oreas					rat, mouse or vole
chestnut-cheeked vole				Family Muridae	Microtus xanthognathus					rat, mouse or vole
collared lemming				Family Muridae	Dicrostonyx torquatus					rat, mouse or vole
creeping vole				Family Muridae	Mycrotus oregoni					rat, mouse or vole
deer mouse				Family Muridae	Permyscus maniculatus					rat, mouse or vole
Gapper's red-backed vole				Family Muridae	Clethrionomys gapperi					rat, mouse or vole
heather vole				Family Muridae	Phenacomys intermedius					rat, mouse or vole
house mouse				Family Muridae	Mus musculus					rat, mouse or vole
long-tailed vole				Family Muridae	Microtis longicaudus					rat, mouse or vole
meadow vole				Family Muridae	Microtus pennsylvanicus					rat, mouse or vole
montane vole				Family Muridae	Microtus montanus					rat, mouse or vole
muskrat	cattails, bulrushes, horsetails, pondweeds, sedges, wild rice, willows, fish, frogs, and clams	March, April or May right after spring breakup	3 in a summer	Family Muridae	Ondatra zibethicus	very well	waterproof fur	fur	fresh water marshes, marshy areas of lakes, and slow-moving streams	rat, mouse or vole	15 minutes by reducing its heart rate and relaxing its muscles when submerged which reduces the rate at which oxygen is used	mink, snapping turtle, northern pike, wolf, coyote, fox, domestic dog, badger, wolverine, fisher, raccoon, and lynx	a lodge or burrow in bank	at 6 weeks of age
northern bog lemming				Family Muridae	Synaptomis borealis					rat, mouse or vole
northern grasshopper mouse				Family Muridae	Onychomys leucogaster					rat, mouse or vole
northern red-backed vole				Family Muridae	Clethrionomys rutilus					rat, mouse or vole
Norway rat				Family Muridae	Rattus norvegicus					rat, mouse or vole
prairie vole				Family Muridae	Microtus ochrogaster					rat, mouse or vole
Richardson's water vole				Family Muridae	Arvicola richardsoni					rat, mouse or vole
rock vole				Family Muridae	Microtus chrotorrhinus					rat, mouse or vole
roof rat				Family Muridae	Rattus rattus					rat, mouse or vole
root vole				Family Muridae	Microtus oeconomus					rat, mouse or vole
sagebrush vole				Family Muridae	Lagurus curtatus					rat, mouse or vole
singing vole				Family Muridae	Microtus miurus					rat, mouse or vole
Sitka mouse				Family Muridae	Peromyscus sitkensis					rat, mouse or vole
southern bog lemming				Family Muridae	Synaptomys cooperi					rat, mouse or vole
Townsend's vole				Family Muridae	Microtus townsendii					rat, mouse or vole
Ungava lemming				Family Muridae	Dicrostonyx hudsonii					rat, mouse or vole
western harvest mouse				Family Muridae	Reithrodontomys megalotis					rat, mouse or vole
western red-backed vole				Family Muridae	Clethrionomys occidentalis					rat, mouse or vole
white-footed mouse				Family Muridae	Peromyscus leucopus					rat, mouse or vole
woodland vole				Family Muridae	Microtus pinetorum					rat, mouse or vole

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