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 voles have experienced changes to their skulls in response to urban ...

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.

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 ...

Several species of voles occur in the Juneau area. We see signs of their activity in various places — tracks in the snow, tunnels in the grass, nibbled bark at the base of shrubs, and so on. But ...

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 ...

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.

The water vole inspired one of Wind In The Willows best loved characters, but in real life they are as vicious as they are cunning. They’re also in danger of vanishing for ever ...

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.