Sentences with phrase «from voles»

Neuroscientists studying mammals from voles to hyenas are discovering key correlations between brain chemicals and social strategies.

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Men, like the common Prairie Vole are driven to monogamy or away from it simply by their... brains.

If we do not act now, the water vole will be gone within 10 years from much of North Wales.»

These projects include work to protect water voles in the South West of England from habitat loss and predation by the American Mink; work to safeguard the future of dormice in Cheshire and the creation of wildlife corridors benefitting birds, mammals and amphibians in North Wales.

qBrain is built on an automated technology platform that will be used to perform similar analyses of other mammalian brains, from prairie voles to marmoset monkeys and humans.

In a study published last fall, researchers showed that male prairie voles that had been separated from their female partners for four days — a much shorter amount of separation time than researchers had previously found to affect the voles» physiology — exhibited depressionlike behavior and had increased levels of corticosterone, the rodent equivalent of the human stress hormone cortisol.

They found 46 mutations in just one gene, the cytochrome b gene, in nine voles taken from the 30 - kilometre restricted zone around Chernobyl.

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.

A new theory that has sprung from research on prairie voles says that at least some of those disparities evolved not to create differences in behaviour or ability, but to prevent them.

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.

Researchers from the University of Zurich have succeeded in documenting an extremely rare case of evolutionary adaptation «in action» among wild snow voles near Chur.

Next, the scientists cloned the gene from the prairie vole's vasopressin receptor and implanted it in an embryo of the less sociable laboratory mouse.

The dramatic proof came in an experiment in which the researchers were able to make a mouse more caring for females by giving it the vasopressin receptor gene from the prairie vole, well known for being faithful and social.

These findings suggest that historical milking grounds represent an alternative stable state, maintained by a number of processes, including increased nutrient cycling rates, soil biotic and abiotic processes, and selective feeding on shrubs by lemmings and voles, which prevent the surrounding vegetation from invading in the historical milking grounds.

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 paper Young published this month, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Tsukuba in Japan, found prairie voles that have bonded with a mate not only experience more anxiety when separated from their partners — they also experience more physical pain during the separation, by various measures including response to a painful injection and pain from heat.

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The little gray vole that lived under my tent (a small mouse like creature) ran out and approached a marmot that sat about 3 m away from me, twitching its nose in the air.

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.»

I'm not one who normally reads children's books, but when I came across Erika's lovely stories and drawings of charming little «Peter Vole» I felt something that I had not experienced in a long time from a book... I was genuinely touched.

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.

Generally, they don't distinguish rabbits from the squirrels we may not mind having in our yards, or between voles and the city rats we decidedly don't want.

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.

Tiptoeing shyly further into the space, you clutch the traditional cotton cloth peştamal to your chest like a startled vole when, emerging from the fog, a bare - breasted masseur looms into view.

A string of multicolored mummified voles dangle from the ceiling like carnival lights, adding a jaunty tone to the perverse proceedings, while a popular music soundtrack programmed never to repeat a single song plays endlessly.