Sentences with phrase «monogamous pair bonds»
Such sex - specific responses to the same socially relevant stimuli can explain how gregarious animals are able to maintain monogamous pair bonds.
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Ninety - nine percent of mammal species never form lasting pair - bonds, and those that do continue to bear illegitimate offspring — as many as 80 percent of them, in the case of the «monogamous» red fox.
For example, Young's research shows normally monogamous prairie voles do not develop pair bonds with their mates if their mu - opioid system is blocked; other studies have found that mice genetically engineered to have no mu - opioid receptors do not prefer their mothers to other mice the way normal baby mice do.
Pair bond formation leads to a sustained increase in global cerebral glucose metabolism in monogamous male titi monkeys (Callicebus cupreus).
Hinde, K., Muth, C., Maninger, N. Ragen, B.J., Larke, R.H., Jarcho, M.R., Mendoza, S.P., Mason, W.A., Ferrer, E., and Bales, K.L. Challenges to the pair bond: Neural and hormonal effects of separation and reunion in a monogamous primate.
A gender - specific mechanism for pair bonding: Oxytocin and partner preference formation in monogamous voles