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

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UC Berkeley research finds the hormone oxytocin helps shape friendships, influencing who we bond with and how fast those ...

Voles prefer tall vegetation, so keep lawns, especially those near flower beds, tidy. Minimize the amount of mulch in flower beds, and turn it frequently so their tunnel systems are disturbed.

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 ...

Farmers can help researchers devise a battle plan for a relentless pest as part of Oregon State University’s upcoming “vole ...

The latest lawsuit is part of nearly 20-year fight to protect the red tree vole that has lost 65% of its Oregon Coast ...

A new study in voles shows that the so-called love hormone, oxytocin, is also critical for the formation and maintenance of ...

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 ...

When the voles are reunited, the second vole quickly starts licking and grooming its stressed mate, continuing for around 10 minutes. It looks a lot like what we’d call consolation.

As colonies of voles live more densely in close quarters, lost (and philandering) voles appear more likely to wander into each others’ burrows and mate, and genetic diversity reins.