An oxytocin receptor, she explains, is like a “lock” for which oxytocin is the “key.” Essentially, the hormone needs to open ...

Moles and voles can damage your yard and garden but planting this flower will keep them away. And as a bonus, it will add ...

What Do Voles Look Like? Slightly larger than moles, voles are 5 to 8 inches long and resemble field mice with short tails, compact heavy bodies, small eyes, and partially hidden ears, says Smith.

About 100 water voles are to be reintroduced to a valley in a national park later this month. Forestry England is releasing the animals at Wild Ennerdale in the Lake District on 12 August, as part of ...

Conservation groups are again going to court as part of a nearly two-decade-long fight to protect a small forest-dwelling ...

While adaptation is positive, this study indicates that similar animals are responding differently. According to one ...

A colony of 50 water voles has been released into the wild in Surrey, where the species has been locally extinct for 20 years. The voles, an endangered species, were bred in captivity at the Wildwood ...

The mouse-sized animals with reddish-brown fur traditionally lived in forests along the Oregon coast and Northern California ...

Prairie voles are highly social, forming monogamous mating relationships, as well as peer relationships akin to human ...

Male voles that had larger home ranges left their nests more often and met up more with different females. Those with smaller ranges stuck closer to home and left their female partners less often.