A new Field Museum study reveals that Chicago's chipmunks have grown larger with shorter teeth due to processed human food, ...

As Pizza Rat proved, some creatures can adapt to just about anything, even the concrete jungle. And it isn’t just New York ...

Chipmunks are members of the same family as squirrels. The small rodents spend most of their time aboveground, eating seeds, ...

Over the next seven weeks at Briones Regional Park in California’s Contra Costa county, Smith’s team documented 74 cases of squirrels hunting voles (Microtus californicus).

California ground squirrels (Otospermophilus beecheyi), on most days, have a plant-forward diet. They have also been known to eat meat such as bird eggs, hatchlings, insects, or each other on occasion ...

Take the prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster), for instance. Unlike most rodents, prairie voles pair up, build a nest, groom each other, and raise their young.

But these squirrels are anything but ordinary. For the first time, they have been observed hunting, killing, and eating other animals– tiny rodents called California voles (Microtus californicus).

Bank voles will even climb trees for fruit and berries. Bark may be stripped by mice and voles at ground level. Voles are particularly well known for this, often concentrating on one particular ...

The behavior of prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) began to attract scientific attention in the 1970s, when, in an experiment at the University of Illinois, researchers saw that there was a species ...

Two species of voles are common in the Northeast, the meadow vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus) and the woodland vole (Microtus pinetorum). The common names indicate the sort of habitat each species ...

Like humans, socially monogamous prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) form opposite-sex pair bonds, and upon partner separation, show stress phenotypes that diminish over time. We test the hypothesis ...

- February 14, 2023 Everett Last fall, Meadow Voles — also known as Meadow Mice, or Voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) — began preparations for winter. To survive our winters, the Voles need habitat and ...