Brave Vole Battles a Coyote and Lives to Tell the Tale
February 11th, 2010
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That vole takes the Napoleon complex to a whole new frontier
It seemed like a contest with only one possible outcome… vole on the menu.
Yet a combination of pluck and luck enabled this tiny rodent to avoid the jaws of a coyote, or prairie wolf.
The hungry predator had plucked its would-be prey out of a snowdrift beside the road through Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. But rather than surrender to its fate, the vole reared up to confront the danger head on.
