CALDWELL, Idaho — Brad McIntyre hit a stumbling block two years ago in his efforts to improve farm production by mimicking nature — vole populations spiked, and the rodents began decimating his crops.

Knowing little about owl irruptions, those wonderful mass appearances of Snowy or Great Gray owls caused by fluctuations in prey populations, something else I know little about, I'm going to make a ...

The more time a vole spent in protected areas, the higher the anxiety level, though this varied among individual voles. Then the researchers exposed the voles to a common threat, placing the voles' ...

ASTORIA, Ore. — A tree-dwelling rodent that’s one of the favorite meals of the endangered northern spotted owl is itself a candidate for protection under the Endangered Species Act. The U.S. Fish and ...

Just beneath the owl box, hung 20 feet up the stem of a balsam poplar, the backyard barbecue continued late into the evening. Despite the thwap of badminton birdies and the chirp of human voices, the ...

The vole is a small, little creature that makes tunnels and eats the bark around trees and shrubs. They also find the roots of many plants and bulbs delectable. Therefore, vole damage can be ...

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, it may not be amore at all. If you're a vole, it might be a ghostly white barn owl about to kill and eat you. Voles are a favorite meal for barn owls, ...

Who takes charge during a disaster or at an accident scene? The question has intrigued sociologists since Gustave Le Bon first studied "herd behavior" in nineteenth-century France. The question of an ...

Don’t come back as a meadow vole in another life. You might get swallowed whole by a short-eared owl and unceremoniously upchucked as an owl pellet. On the plus side, your brief mouse life would help ...

We analyzed data on 535 Ural Owl (Strix uralensis) breeding attempts and consecutive survival of both adults and offspring from 1987-1998 in relation to the regional abundance of the Ural Owl's main ...