Northern water-vole

The northern water-vole is a semi-aquatic rodent. Water voles have rounder noses than rats, deep brown fur, chubby faces and short fuzzy ears; unlike rats their tails, paws and ears are covered with hair. Water voles inhabit all of Parania, stretching as far west as Balyshel all the way east to southeast Cheskachena, however they are absent from the southern half of Kosna (below Sharikba) and The Celestial Islands. Water voles live in burrows excavated within the banks of rivers, ditches, ponds, and streams. Burrows are normally located adjacent to slow moving, calm water which they seem to prefer. They also live in reed beds where they will weave ball-shaped nests above ground if no suitable banks exist in which to burrow. 
Water voles, like any other species of rodent, are vulnerable species. They are eaten mostly by red foxes, hawks, owls and falcons. However, their most apex predator in their area of course is the common polecat. 
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Category:Animals
Category:Fauna of Parania