Voles in a sentence

Listen to Wendall in the Wild: Episode 5, Voles and you can hear our interview with Tom French and learn the differences between voles and other small mammals, including shrews and moles.

Some of the voles the Ice Age common kestrels ate—such as European pine voles (Microtus subterraneus)—were indistinguishable from those alive today.

In past studies, voles given drugs that stopped oxytocin being processed no longer formed pairs, and mothers failed to produce milk for their young.

It might not be bringing back water voles.

More than happy for someone to correct me, but Field Voles & a Common Shrew?

Alameda County Vector Control also shared that they provided traps to residents interested in trapping voles on their property.

Fortunately, the owls have the decency not to eat their hosts; their usual diet includes insects, lizards, and smaller rodents, such as voles and kangaroo rats.

In an experiment where the promiscuous montane voles were dosed with these bonding hormones, they too became monogamous and loyal to their mate.

Just because voles are present, it doesn’t mean that they are thriving.

Out of 74 interactions the Long-term Behavioral Ecology of California Ground Squirrels Project observed at Contra Costa County’s Briones Regional Park, 42 percent involved active hunting of the voles.

Sir Williamson was pleased to hear that kingfishers, bank voles and nuthatches frequently make their home on the reserve along with other local wildlife.

The virus has been most commonly identified in red-backed voles and shrews, based on small mammal sampling in the Fairbanks North Star Borough.

Head falconer Rufus Samkin said: “Where she was found is very productive land, and it’s been a mild winter and there’s a lot of food around – voles, mice.

Now, in this small ecosystem tucked between the city and the cornfields, wounded sparrows died and putrefied, the caterpillars secreted smelly vapors, and the short-tailed shrews and meadow voles dropped feces.

The Ronettes’ Be My Baby basically invented Amy Winehouse circa Back to Black, and in among all the back-combed hair high enough to house a small family of voles was Spector’s immaculate voice, a clarion call for every single emotion.

Locally, meadow voles may produce six or seven broods a year, which is handy for an animal at the bottom of the food chain.

The sale targets mature forests, home to a thriving population of red tree voles, a small tree-dwelling mammal that is a prey source for the imperiled northern spotted owl.

To combat this issue, the research team conducted experiments in Bales’ lab on 78 prairie voles because they have unique, human-like emotional capabilities.

An individual nestling consumes on average 4.2 g/h, equivalent to 67.8 g/d (3–4 voles per day).

Consumption of voles and vole food caches by Yellowstone grizzly bears: exploratory analyses.