The Mexican Vole is a grassland vole of high mountain meadows in the southwestern United States and Mexico, found from the sky islands of Arizona and New Mexico south through the Mexican highlands. It builds extensive runway systems in dense bunch-grass habitats and creates small haypiles of clipped grasses. The species is often found at higher elevations than the montane vole.
Habitat
Bunch-grass meadows in mountain forests of the Southwest and Mexico
Diet
Grasses, sedges, and forbs
How common
Uncommon
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