Voles are rodents that are closer in size and shape to hamsters than they are to the similarly sounding moles. These rodents ...

California ground squirrels are as commonplace as the seeds, acorns, and grains they’re often seen nibbling. Yet, scientists ...

Squirrels in California have been observed hunting and eating voles for the first time, suggesting that they have a more diverse diet than once thought. Sonja Wild, UC Davis ...

Urban wildlife is evolving right under our noses — and scientists have the skulls to prove it. By examining over a century’s ...

The researchers plan to return to Briones next summer to see what impact, if any, this year’s vole diet had on the numbers of squirrels. By then, however, the squirrels may have become someone ...

California ground squirrels, typically known for their herbivorous diet, were observed hunting and eating voles for the first time in July 2024. Researchers documented this surprising predatory ...

When living things are faced with dramatic shifts in the world around them, they sometimes rapidly adapt to better survive.

Their target: local voles. In a study published in the Journal of Ethology , a group of California ground squirrels were found hunting, killing and eating a vole.

Endangered water voles in Wales are being fed edible glitter in a bid to save them from extinction. ... The glitter is spread onto chunks of apple, not part of their normal diet in the wild, ...

Yet, in our twelve years of conducting observations on hundreds of squirrels we had never observed any incidents of vole hunting before this summer.” A California vole. CREDIT: Sonja Wild, UC Davis.

Squirrels mainly consume acorns, seeds, nuts, and fruits, but they have been known to supplement that diet with insects and, occasionally, by stealing eggs or young hatchlings from nests.

Endangered water voles in Wales are being fed edible glitter in a bid to save them from extinction. Once commonly found across south Wales, water voles are now effectively extinct in all but a few ...