The meadow vole is well known for its fecundity. One female, kept in a laboratory, gave birth to 17 litters in one year. With a life span averaging less than a year in the wild, most females produce ...

This slender vole has relatively prominent, rounded ears, and long coarse fur, buffy to yellowish gray on the sides and silvery gray on the underparts of the body. The bicolored (dark brown above and ...

Recently, I was camped along a wild, remote river in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ... returning a few minutes later ...

Lake District welcomes reintroduction of water voles Volunteers will check the pens in the coming days, eventually removing them when the newly wild voles have moved into their own burrows.

Dozens of water voles have been released into the wild in Cornwall to help improve a wetland. The Duchy of Cornwall said it released 80 water voles in the River Fowey at Restormel. The rodents ...

Once every spring, a few days after the full moon, corals of the great barrier reef release eggs and sperm simultaneously—a ...

The voles need more protection or they’ll be driven extinct ... million members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.

“The red tree vole, and the diverse older forests it inhabits, are vital to the survival of northern spotted owls, wild salmon and countless other species,” said Danielle Moser, wildlife program ...

“If Dad weren’t around, I wouldn’t be working this hard.” It was then that a red-tailed hawk flew down from its perch on a ...

Wild rodents offer particularly exciting opportunities to pursue such research. They are behaviorally diverse, yet allow researchers to use many of the same tools developed for model organism. Voles ...

Extinction-threatened wild birds and the native Orkney Vole are surging on Orkney after conservation efforts to eradicate ...

Water voles, eels and otters could be seen in London in greater numbers under the latest phase of Sadiq Khan’s plan to boost wildlife in the capital’s rivers. Last year the mayor was instrumental in ...