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by Tom Moorhouse (Doubleday £14.99, 272 pp)
William Boot, the hapless hero of Evelyn Waugh’s novel Scoop, famously observed in his nature notes column for the fictional Daily Beast: ‘Feather footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.’
That just shows how little Mr Boot really knew about voles. They are not feather footed and they do not quest but move with a sort of rapid waddle, says Tom Moorhouse, who knows more about the behaviour of the water vole than is entirely healthy.
Tom Moorhouse who is a researcher at Oxford University s zoology department, has penned a book about voles (pictured)