The fox's hunting prowess involves stillness, sharp senses and dramatic leaps. By penetrating snowpack layers, they reach prey hidden beneath.

How does a woodpecker keep from getting woodchips in its nostrils?” A woodpecker’s nostrils or nares have stiff feathers around them. These feathers filter out woodchips and sawdust, and lessen ...

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Northern Michigan’s subnivean dwellers include voles, mice and shrews. Mice eat primarily seeds, voles eat mostly roots and other vegetation and shrews are carnivores. They eat insects, worms—and ...

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Virtually every walk I've had during December and January, I have seen animal tracks of their active nocturnal lives. Deer, red and gray foxes, coyotes, weasels, minks, mice, voles and shrews have ...

The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination.” — Terri Guillemets This past week has ...

Vishal Subramanyan and Prakrit Jain had never even heard of the rare shrew they would soon spend months chasing. The students were both in the same mammalogy class at the University of California, ...

Cats can kill between 6.3 billion and 22.3 billion mammals a year, mainly mice, voles, shrews, squirrels and rabbits, an article from Catster reported. As there are larger predators at the top of ...

Karen Wils photo A little vole pops up in his tunnel in the snow on a sunny January day. ESCANABA — Squeak, squeak, squeak — mouse, vole and shrew all hidden snug and warm beneath a quilt of white ...

With considerable progress made in the field of molecular biology and the availability of more sophisticated serological assays, diagnosis of hantavirus infections will probably become easier ...