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

To cope with this, grazing animals as different as voles and horses have evolved similar teeth. The chewing surface of their molars has many ridges of enamel, to increase cutting power and resist ...

Thanks to pack rats, however, these voles have not been forgotten. In one Colorado cave, a pack rat collection of teeth and bones has yielded a layered slice of vole history between 600,000 and a ...

If you look closely, you’ll see the vole’s teeth marks on the stalk of the plant. Voles are active both day and night and do not hibernate. They are shy creatures and build complex tunnels ...

to keep their teeth from outgrowing them," Huntsinger said. "So they choose our irrigation lines." In an effort to control the vole population, the county decided to take a natural approach by ...

Then the population crashes. No longer pruned by rodent teeth, plants regrow on soils still enriched with nitrogen and phosphorus. Each blade of grass and leaf fixes carbon from the atmosphere ...

Most of the time, squirrels chased voles across the dirt landscape. If squirrels came close to their prey, they usually pounced on it with their paws and teeth. Other times, squirrels squatted and ...