Saturday 17 November 2012

White bank vole filmed in Norway


Unusual white bank vole
November 2012. Ronny Steen of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences has sent us this unusual image of a white bank vole that was caught on camera. The image was captured by a camera that was monitoring the nest of a kestrel. Whilst leucism is a well-known condition, it is unusual to record it in smaller mammals, probably due to their vulnerability to predators caused by their lack of camouflage.

Steen has written a paper about the vole, click here to read the paper. 

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