ROSEVILLE -- Rodents are wreaking havoc in Roseville parks, but Placer County officials have found a creative way to give nature a chance to fight back. Josh Huntsinger says the vole population has ...

It’s fair to assume that watching a cat and dog team up to intimidate a vole wasn’t on many people's Bingo cards today. But what is life if not a series of unexpected moments? "Fritz (the cat) found a ...

We have been lucky this winter, but how long will our luck hold out? No, I am not referring to the amount of snow we have received or the warm winter temperatures we’ve had. Even in a winter like this ...

California's wild animals are still poisoned by rodenticide despite restrictions on the substance. Now, the state is weighing ...

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A UC Davis study showed a nutty novel behavior in California squirrels: They’re hunting like carnivores, taking down and consuming other, smaller rodents. As part of an ongoing 12-year study of ...

The woodland vole shows many adaptations for its burrowing lifestyle. The fur is short, soft, and silky, almost mole-like in texture. The front feet and claws are larger than those of its relatives.

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 ...

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Oregon State University recently organized a "vole summit" in Salem, Ore., from which it will recruit members for a work group that will provide the university with feedback on research. (Courtesy of ...