'Lonely heart' water voles crucial to population survival
Thursday, September 6, 2012 - 08:03
in Biology & Nature
Young males and females can spend weeks crossing heather moors, bog lands and mountains, often putting themselves in grave danger in a bid to bag a mate. Their quest can see them embark on journeys of up to 15km from their birth place. Extraordinary for an animal not much bigger than a hamster and much further than was previously thought.