Sentences with phrase «as voles»

In the case of taenia taeniaformis the intermediate hosts are normally small rodents such as voles, rats or mice.

This is important, as voles occasionally suffer catastrophic local population crashes.

Not exact matches

On Thursday, the museum — which bills itself as the oldest in Chicago — will turn out some of its rarer animal specimens, including a small rodent called a southern rock vole and two specimens of prairie chicken, a species whose population has rapidly declined due to habitat destruction.

«Her research established how the biological basis of monogamy should be analyzed, and established the prairie vole as the major model for examining the biology of adult social bonds.»

«But the fact is the green philosophy and way of looking at the world to my mind produces an inevitable kind of economics as well as inevitable view of what should be done about water voles and forests and things like that.

As the winter went on, the population of lemmings living under the snow at each site rose, while vole populations fell.

«Pair - bonding in voles is not exactly the same as in people, but we believe that it likely shares many of the underlying neural mechanisms as falling in love in humans,» says Liu.

As a result, when prairie voles are separated from their partners even for a short time, they experience withdrawal - like symptoms, says Larry Young, a behavioral neuroscientist at Emory University's Yerkes National Primate Research Center and co-author of the study.

The research focused on two related species of vole: prairie voles, which are about as close as mammals get to being monogamous, and meadow voles, which express little interest in each other after copulation.

«However, prairie voles are unusual as they are socially monogamous and like drinking alcohol, so they are perfect to investigate the role of alcohol in relationships.»

The study was performed in Kilpisjärvi in northwest Finland, where the research team tested the importance of grazing animals, warming and nutrient availability by combining small greenhouses that increased the summer temperature by 1 - 2 degrees Celsius, small fences that excluded reindeer, voles and lemmings, as well as by use of fertilization.

When barn owls flew over the cages of individual voles, each of the animals» nervousness increased by about the same amount, as measured by standard behavioral tests.

Strong interpersonal relationships have been shown to ward off drug addiction, and new clues as to why come from prairie voles — rodents that form long - term, monogamous bonds with their mates.

Excavation revealed a deep sequence of deposits containing the elephant remains, along with numerous flint tools and a range of other species such as; wild aurochs, extinct forms of rhinoceros and lion, Barbary macaque, beaver, rabbit, various forms of vole and shrew, and a diverse assemblage of snails.

The prairie voles responded with increased displays of chivalry, included sniffing, licking, and grooming the females, but the mountain voles remained aloof as ever.

He re-told the familiar tale of the evolution of land animals from ancient fish, and then considered the return of various groups of reptiles, birds and mammals to an aquatic existence: ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, crocodiles, sea - snakes, penguins, whales, dolphins and porpoises, manatees and dugongs, and seals — as well as polar bears, otters and water voles, who hunt in water.

A letter from the Price - Pottenger Nutrition Foundation archives suggests that Activator X is similar to or derived from «a special kind of oxygen - containing heterocyclic ring» called 6 - methoxybenzoaxazolinone which «acts as a sex - stimulant in voles.»

The star of the show was Andrea Riseborough as Romaine, showgirl and not - quite - wife of the young ex-soldier Leonard Vole (Billy Howle) accused of the crime.

Cats get a lot of these parasites through predation — killing — a possibility in owned cats with outdoor access or the potential for visits from mice, voles and other transport hosts, such as fleas.

The study also says that from 6.9 billion to as many as 20.7 billion mammals — mainly mice, shrews, rabbits and voles — are killed by cats annually in the contiguous 48 states.

In the wild, dogs and cats consume small prey whole (such as moles, voles and mice), but eat selectively from larger prey, sometimes leaving the stomach and entrails behind.

Most cats specialize in rodents, such as mice and voles, but a few become good at killing birds.

As I was shoveling this morning I saw little footprints of a mouse or vole had circled my garaged looking for a crevice to gain entry.

Food web at risk due to loss of snow cover — key prey species such as lemmings and voles overwinter in snow tunnels.

We have the experience and resources to represent our clients in an extensive range of cases, as well as will as, those who are in voled in wrongful death lawsuit:

You can use the same methods for getting rid of moles on voles as well.

Therefore, various nontraditional animal models, which display pair bond formation — including marmosets (Callithrix penicillata), titi monkeys (Callicebus cupreus), California mice (Peromyscus californicus), and prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster)-- have emerged as better alternative animal models to study the neural correlates of pair bond formation (Carter et al., 1995; Bester - Meredith et al., 1999; Bales et al., 2007; de Jong et al., 2009; Smith et al., 2010).

Now I can add the one person I never expected to meet in the Target sock section at 7.30 pm on a Thursday night (with a farting child in tow, a startled vole expression on my face and — perhaps worst of all — leggings as pants) to the list.

Grow a wildflower meadow Not only are wildflowers beautiful to look at, they're extremely important for our native wildlife, providing hunting and feeding grounds for small mammals such as wood mice, voles and shrews.

Rosy's garden, her first ever show garden, was designed to draw attention to the plight of the last 200 natural chalk streams around the world, streams such as the River Test which provide a perfectly balanced habitat for insects, water plants, mammals such as water voles and otters, fish, crayfish and birds.