[ **up: [[Mammals]] | [[Rodents]] | [[Cricetidae (Family)]] | [[Lemmings|Arvicolinae (Subfamily)]] | [[Microtus (Genus]]** ] --- # Prairie vole (*Microtus ochrogaster*) A small [[vole]] found in central [[North America]].[^1] --- ## Taxonomy - **[[Life (Biology)]]** - **[[Eukaryotes|Eukaryota (Domain)]]** - **[[Animals|Animalia (Kingdom)]]** - [[Chordates|Chordata (Phylum)]] - [[Mammals|Mammalia (Class)]] - [[Therians|Theria (Subclass)]] - [[Placentals|Eutheria (Infraclass)]] - [[Rodents|Rodentia (Order)]] - [[Cricetidae (Family)]] - [[Lemmings|Arvicolinae (Subfamily)]] - *[[Microtus (Genus]]* - *[[Prairie vole|Microtus ochrogaster]]* <small>PRAIRIE VOLE</small> --- ## Habits ### Mate choice Prairie voles are [[Monogamy|monogamous]].[^2] #### Pheromones ##### Signature mixes They use signature mixes to recognise their [[2025-0321. Examples of signature mixes for animal recognition abound.|’partner by smell.‘]][^3] [^1]: ‘Prairie vole’, *Wikipedia*, updated 26 November 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie_vole. [^2]: Tristram D. Wyatt, ‘[[Wyatt. ‘Pheromones’, 2017.|Pheromones]]’, *Current Biology*, vol. 27, issue 15 (7 August 2017), p. R740. [^3]: Tristram D. Wyatt, ‘[[Wyatt. ‘Pheromones’, 2017.|Pheromones]]’, *Current Biology*, vol. 27, issue 15 (7 August 2017), p. R740.