3 December 2023

baby rodent in southwest turkey

found this 2.5cm long baby lying in a cattle hoofprint where I live in the southwest of Turkey. Location is Kas, three hours west of Antalya. The blunt muzzle, if its not something that changes as they grow, suggested vole or hamster to me, two species in range Grey Hamster and Guenther’s Vole. However I might be barking completely up the wrong tree?! Anyone good at ID of baby middle-eastern rodents?

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Ian Greentours

Ian is the co-founder of Greentours and since graduating in Ecology, has led over one two hundred and fifty holidays in various fields of natural history, and has organised many, many more. My interests and knowledge extend to most areas of the natural world. I am equally happy among the spring bulbs and alpine flowers of the Middle-eastern mountains, and the biodiverse forests, savannahs and mountains of Asia, Africa and the Neotropics and the great variety of mammals, birds and butterflies therein, but most of all I love nothing better than wondering around with spotlight all night looking for mammals!

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  • 4 December 2023
    Jon Hall

    I am not brave enough to even hazard a guess really but the tail looks too long to be a vole or a hamster to me. .. I would guess that the ratio of tail to head-body length might now change to much as the grow up … but what do I know!

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