Most Dreaded Terror 9 voles
(Sorry. word won't pass the picture to Dreamweaver, but you can look at it on YouTube )
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1144&bih=550&ei=Cto2WqffDKHZjwTHhJC4Ag&q=golden+eagle&oq=golden+ea&gs_l=img.1.0.0l10.3546.7387.0.12686.9.7.0.2.2.0.113.701.4j3.7.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..0.9.701....0.yLmWTHVr1LA#imgrc=FydfOeIiBZmupM: downloaded 12/17/17 and some help from Photoshop
It is the 9 of March 2018.
Voles are simply adorable:
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1202&bih=650&ei=BomUWvK6D6aatgX9oZiYAQ&q=voles+images&oq=voles&gs_l=img.1.2.35i39k1j0l4j0i10k1j0l4.8710.12445.0.16492.8.8.0.0.0.0.137.390.4j1.5.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..3.5.389.0...0.rLdn_BKFQWs#imgrc=4v_JRw3TFBAzeM: downloaded February 26, 2018
Don’t let the title mislead you. I am not saying that we should lie awake at night trembling at the thought of what voles might do to us. Save that for the mechanism we pursue here; if you have followed the videos this far, you know enough to be worried.
Besides, I don’t want to slander the cute little voles … or anybody else for that matter. But look at this:
Counts on the vertical axis, time on the horizontal.
T. Cornulier et al. Europe-wide dampening of population cycles in keystone herbivores. Science 340, 63-66 (2013).
In a number of places in Europe they have stations where they regularly count voles. I can understand that it’s more fun to count voles than to count animals that are more dangerous or less cute. While they have counted over the years the populations have gone up and down. No problem there. But they were meticulous enough to sum up their data and astute enough to notice a recurring pattern. The pattern was something they called damped oscillation.