Sentences with phrase «male prairie»

For example, the overexpression of the V1aR in the ventral pallidum results in a strong partner preference formation in male prairie voles even in the absence of mating (Pitkow et al., 2001).

On the contrary, the knockdown of V1aR in the ventral pallidum of male prairie voles causes a deficit in partner preference formation (Barrett et al., 2013).

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have found that natural selection drives some male prairie voles to be fully monogamous and others to seek more partners.

The researchers next investigated whether there were any changes in the brains of the male prairie voles.

A study of the effect of alcohol on long - term relationships finds that when a male prairie vole has access to alcohol, but his female partner doesn't, the relationship suffers — similar to what has been observed in human couples.

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.

A clue to the mixed leks is that the male prairie chickens were more likely to join sharp - tail leks than vice versa.

Not exact matches

Male greater prairie chickens make booming calls to attract females for mating.

By simply activating certain circuits in the brains of female prairie voles, researchers made them «fall in love» with specific males.

So why would a female prairie dog take the risk to mate with multiple males?

«Why do female prairie dogs copulate with more than one male?

Mating with more than one male increases reproductive success for female prairie dogs, despite an increase in risks.

Andre Walcott, a graduate student in Ryabinin's laboratory, allowed male and female prairie voles to form social bonds over one week.

During a 4 - or 5 - hour estrus, a female prairie dog may mate with as many as 5 different males, allowing pups from the same litter to have different fathers.

This happened once before when Willa Cather's exacting prose (on heartbreaking / beautiful narratives of life on the prairie) was entirely underrated and overshadowed by her male contemporaries!!

One feral cat, a mixed breed male, had a home range of 1,351 acres, covering both urban and rural, residential and agricultural, forest and prairie areas.