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The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 03:37, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Gray-tailed vole

 * ... that in the event of a severe flood, the gray-tailed vole will abandon its complex network of tunnels and head for high ground?
 * Reviewed: Walter Hofer
 * Comment: Planning to push to GA status. Cannot find an image.  Map will hopefully be available soon.

5x expanded by Gaff (talk). Self nominated at 04:13, 4 December 2014 (UTC).


 * Symbol voting keep.svg Article was expanded 5x in past 5 days; article is long enough and has adequately references with no evidence of plagiarism; hook is appropriate length with off-line source taken in good faith.--Orygun (talk) 05:57, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I added a reference linked to the 1987 Verts/Carraway paper, with online pdf. It's on page 3 first paragraphy, in the section on behavior.  Interestingly, they stay in the burrows until flooding gets to be too much.  I tried to fit that into the hook, but wasn't sure just how to do it.  &mdash; Gaff   ταλκ  15:41, 6 December 2014 (UTC)