"I have to admit that while my politics generally tend to the liberal option, on this one issue of chipmunks, I can see the NRA point of view."

"Part of me wants these suckers to die." Says Mayor Citizen Dave. Also: "I love tomatoes enough to rethink my concerns abou...

"The prairie vole is a notable animal model for its monogamous sexual fidelity, since the male is usually faithful to the female, and shares in the raising of pups."

"Another species from the same genus, the meadow vole, has promiscuously mating males, and scientists have changed adult male meadow vo...

A man who saved a mouse from a cat is now "at death's door" with the plague.

In Oregon.

What sort of place should you want to live in as you get old? A place with "non-Western ideas about healing"?

From a discussion with an architect (Wid Chapman) and a gerontologist (Jeffrey P. Rosenfeld): Along with grab bars (which are frequently men...

Grizzly bear kills a man in Yellowstone Park.

The description comes out: Marylyn Matayoshi told park officials that she and her husband were hiking back to their car along the Wapiti Lak...

"France was punished on Thursday for not taking proper care of its hamsters."

The NYT reports.

"It was the scent of rodents (on the wood clippings) that we hoped would bring her out."

The Egyptian cobra has been lured back into captivity.

These would be lovable if they were moles...

... but they are mice. "Inadvertently raked up" — Meade IM's from the garden. ME: Ouch MEADE: I didn't hurt them I even us...

"In his battle with the titans of Wall Street, President Barack Obama almost got upstaged by a rat."

"But he didn't even seem to notice. Assuming that's what it was, scurrying in front of his podium Thursday in a sun-drenched Ro...