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| Voles (Microtus) are a large and widely distributed group of rodents in the Northern Hemisphere; sometimes they are called 'field mice'.   This one is the montane vole, found as its name implies in mountainous regions in western North America.     I photographed these in Mono County, in the eastern Sierra Nevada of California. 
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