Voles are small mammals that tend to have large heads, compact bodies, and short noses. Microtus means “small ear” and the voles of this genus have short ears that barely protrude from the fur ...

Colonies of the UK's fastest declining mammal species have been discovered in south Wales' uplands.

The eyes are small; the ears short and nearly hidden by the fur surrounding them. Characters useful in distinguishing this species from other Adirondack voles include fur color and texture, and tail ...

A policy to control invasive minks in Leicestershire and Rutland in a bid to protect water vole populations has been approved ...

What Do Prairie Voles Have to Do With It? Fisher’s work on the human neural mechanism of love built upon the work of social neuroscientists like Tom Insel of the NIH and Larry Young of Emory ...

Usually found across riverbanks in Wales, water voles have now taken up habitat in the valleys, which could help prevent their local extinction. Robert Parry, chief executive of the Initiative for ...

I have never even seen a vole, but I am pretty certain they are out there – in the garden! Maybe they just didn’t come around ...

Chris Packham uses a man-made burrow to investigate water voles, which are one of the rarest burrowing animals in the UK and an endangered species. He explains how they like to spend a lot of time ...

During the Colorado winter, voles, a small herbivorous rodent that lives underground, take advantage of snow-covered lawns to hide from predators. But when the snow melts, the tiny creatures can ...

Fortunately, the bed filled back in because of the way thyme grows. Voles are also known as meadow mice, field mice and ground moles. They are not a mole, nor a mouse, nor a shrew. I don’t think ...

Oxytocin receptor (Oxtr) signaling influences complex social behaviors in diverse species, including social monogamy in prairie voles. How Oxtr regulates specific components of social attachment ...