The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is a carnivorous hunter admired for its striking coat of white, yellow, or grey fur with ...

This is a time of abundance for Mother Earth’s creatures, with food sources available everywhere. Flowers provide nectar and ...

Changes to forests, and how close people and their livestock live to them, have changed tick habitats and the risks humans face of Lyme disease and other illnesses.

Voles are rodents that are closer in size and shape to hamsters than they are to the similarly sounding moles. These rodents ...

The Pallas' cat is a solitary creature no bigger than a domestic cat that makes its home in the chilly, arid grasslands of ...

The most effective way to eliminate field mice from your yard is to use a combination of approaches. Here are 10 ways to get ...

‘Barn owls like tussocky, rough grassland which supports good numbers of voles for hunting, whether in field margins or parts of fields. Ideally nest boxes are installed inside barns, but they can ...

Copperhead snakes are slithering through Georgia just in time for the summer. Where do they hide? How to keep them out? What to do if you see one?

He has successfully bred hundreds of water voles which have been reintroduced into the wild, though he said their release was no guarantee of survival. "Most predators in the UK would quite ...

During the Colorado winter, voles, a small herbivorous rodent that lives underground, take advantage of snow-covered lawns to hide from predators. But when the snow melts, the tiny creatures can ...

Once a familiar sight along Britain’s riverbanks, water voles now face extinction—thanks to a new predator. Can these promising conservation programs save them? A water vole (Arvicola ...