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Three stories above the Field Museum's exhibits, rows and rows of taxidermied chipmunks filled a tray in the museum's mammal ...
Urbanization has had visible morphological effects on chipmunks and voles in the Chicago metro area. While both chipmunks and ...
Researchers studied specimens of small mammals in the Field Museum’s collection to explore the ways animals are adapting to ...
Conservation groups sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for denying protections to the imperiled North Oregon Coast ...
Voles are longer than moles, measuring up to 8 inches in length, from nose to tip of tail. Most are in the six to seven-inch range, however. Voles look like big mice.
Voles eat plants, grass, fruits, carrion, and seeds. These omnivores are very opportunistic when finding and consuming foods, eating a variety of plant matter and even other dead rodents when they ...
Debbie Woollett, with the Working Dogs for Conservation Foundation, displays a vial of scat from a white-footed vole, which is used in tracking the animal using their trained search dogs, near ...
Planting these brilliant flowers will deter voles, also known as field mice, from destroying the garden you have so lovingly created. Here's how to go about it.
It’s important to know your moles from your voles. Jeff in Manassas writes: “I could use some advice. We have a mole (or several moles by the looks of it) making a home in our yard.
On May 5 th, we held a Facebook LIVE: Ask an Expert with several FNR specialists and one of the questions that came in is a question I receive often.. One of the many benefits of interacting with ...