This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American You’ll already know what voles are. They’re ...

A short-tailed vole, or field vole. Damage from voles wreck a Lawrence lawn. When the snow melted, several Lawrence and Douglas County residents were left with what some described as looking like ...

Voles are small mammals that tend to have large heads, compact bodies, and short noses. Microtus means “small ear” and the voles of this genus have short ears that barely protrude from the fur ...

A lot of people refer to seeing field mice, which are actually a species of vole called short-tailed field voles. These are currently classed as the most numerous mammals in the UK with a population ...

TUBERCULOSIS among wild animals living in their natural state is almost unknown, and the announcement by Dr. A. Q. Wells of the Bureau of Animal Population, Oxford, of the discovery of this disease ...