Sentences with phrase «of other rodents»

Gerbils» teeth grow continuously, just like those of all other rodents.

Did you know that guinea pigs» teeth grow continuously, just like those of other rodents?

Not exact matches

Start with the studies done by Jane Goodall, and then continue with a HUGE variety of other animal studies that PROVE animals have morals, they use tools, build societies and cultures, have their own languages (such as the prarie dogs... simple little rodents right?

In rodents Flechsig thinks there is a complete absence of association - centres, — the sensory centres touch each other.

Such changes — flexible thinking, managing feelings and paying more attention to others — persist long after the pups are weaned, making active rodent parents of both sexes «smarter» (Lambert, 2012).

Montgomery County, otherwise considered one of the more progressive jurisdictions in the country, also does not permit food gardens on school grounds, claiming they might attract rodents and other vermin.

It is easy for a wealthy businessman, in the throngs of male menopause, to take a mistress; to exaggerrate macho tendancies; to strike out against homosexuality; to rent building space to gay bar owners.; to use baseball violent metaphores; to deny other men their masulinity, by labeling them rodents.

We expanded mental health services in schools through partnership with Say Yes and others; maintained an active and robust rodent control program that is having positive results in communities across the county; continued a very popular rabies clinic program that has been attended by thousands of appreciative pets (and owners); and, along with partners, created the innovative Erie County Health Mall to improve local health outcomes.

Mr Alexander himself sought to make light of the remark, posting a comment on his Twitter site saying: «I am proud to be ginger and rodents do valuable work cleaning up mess others leave behind.

Moreover, recent studies on rodents indicate that the internal clock also affects how the metabolism responds to the intake of carbohydrates or fats, and that certain time frames are more suitable than others for the consumption of a high - carbohydrate or a high - fat diet, seen from a health perspective.

About a third of mice exposed to severe stress (in the form of aggressive attacks by other rodents) seem to breeze through these assaults without developing the social withdrawal, listlessness or other depression and traumalike symptoms displayed by most of their rodent lab - mates.

The mice behaved just like others of their kind, as far as scientists could tell, and they also looked the same — except for the human mini brain that had been implanted into each rodent's own cortex, made visible by a little clear cover replacing part of their skull.

In the past decade, a growing body of work has suggested that rodents and other animals have complex mental lives and can experience a range of emotions once only attributed to people.

Hattar and other scientists then set out to determine exactly what ipRGCs do by creating mirror images of Keeler's blind rodents.

The findings support other recent rodent studies that showed drugs that enhance the action of BDNF can reduce brain changes and symptoms of Huntington's disease.

Other rodent models that utilize changes in expression of α - synuclein have also reported lower anxiety levels.

The military imported many other species as well, including the common black rat, Rattus rattus, a large tree - dwelling rodent whose blood fed many of the mosquitoes.

Adult mice and other rodents sprout new nerve cells in memory - related parts of their brains.

Remnants of snails, clams, frogs, crocodiles, rodent - size mammals, and other animals have been excavated in neighboring micro-sites.

«If we apply the same technique that works for 20 other species of rodent, for some reason that's not good enough for blind - mole - rat cells — they always die,» says Gorbunova.

A mutation could be implanted in a critical mass of mosquitoes or rodents or some other pest, and the mutation would spread through the population for good or for ill.

«Rodents, dogs and other mammals commonly sniff themselves, and they sniff one another in social interactions, and it seems that in the course of evolution, humans have retained this practice — only on a subliminal level.»

Some researchers have found in rodents evidence of reproductive problems, developmental harm, cancer, and neurological problems, whereas others have not (ScienceNOW, 16 April).

That's why the chemical is a key ingredient in pepper spray and a growing number of other concoctions for warding off belligerent backwood bears and backyard rodent pests.

Perhaps even more intriguing, our astrocytes are enormous compared with the astrocytes of other animals — 20 times larger than rodent astrocytes — and they make contact with millions of neurons apiece.

Some biologists extrapolate findings from rodent studies of epigenetic inheritance to humans, but others remain skeptical

Although researchers once thought this ability was unique to primates and humans, Redish's lab and other groups have demonstrated that rodents also perform a kind of mental time travel as they learn to navigate through mazes.

A new review by an international team of scientists, including Stony Brook University Professor Liliana M. Dávalos, reports an analysis of the incredibly diverse «lost world» of Caribbean fossils that includes giant rodents, vampire bats, enigmatic monkeys, ground sloths, shrews and dozens of other ancient mammals.

Rodents gone mad In other schizophrenia news, a new transgenic mouse may allow researchers to better study the enigmatic disease, which afflicts one percent of people worldwide.

Now, they take about three - quarters of their blood meals from the rodents in question because the python is eating up many of the other mammals, said Burkett - Cadena.

Nevertheless, there are other measures of depression in humans that can be assessed in rodents — like the ability to enjoy pleasurable activities, which is a cardinal feature of depression in humans — you can measure that in a mouse to see how much a mouse likes to eat a sweet treat, have sex, how well it sleeps and so on.

With the emergence of Ebola virus from bats and hantaviruses from rodents, investigators say identifying the other species infected with HAV provides novel insight into the evolution of HAV and how it spread to humans, and highlights the utility of analyzing animal reservoirs for risk assessment of emerging viruses.

In previous studies on rodents, postdoctoral scholar Clemenson and others showed that exploring the environment resulted in the growth of new neurons that became entrenched in the hippocampus» memory circuit and increased neuronal signaling networks.

Knowing that rats» faces can tell another rat how they're feeling will of course lead to more questions about using the rodents — or other animals — in biomedical research.

Chronically treating mice with an antidepressant, fluoxetine, and raising rodents in a stimulating environment with toys and plenty of social interaction, are among other paradigms that do the same.

Studies of germ - free rodents and other animals on gut - disrupting antibiotics show that changing microbial communities can impair memory and cause anxiety - like behaviours.

When given the option of drinking either water or a clear, tasteless, synthetic silicone oil, rodents lacking sour TRCs took longer to choose water, suggesting the cells help to distinguish water from other fluids.

The rodents have revealed that variations in gut bacteria may be at the heart of this disparity — and may also explain why some malnourished children respond better to nutritional supplements than others.

Most of the bat, shrew, porcupine, and other rodent specimens are compatible with a relatively moist environmental setting, as are the abundant fossils of monkeys and spiral - horned antelopes.

In December 2009, Summers became the first patient enrolled in a clinical trial of a method pioneered in studies with rodents and cats by Edgerton and others.

And, knowing that other scientists had recently shown that mice can tell the difference between paintings by Picasso and Renoir, he decided to see if rodents could also discriminate between photographs of their fellows» expressions.

Plague doesn't usually kill people these days, but it's alive and well among the millions of ground - dwelling rodents of Colorado and other western states, notably the black - tailed prairie dog.

In one of the most elaborate feats of synthetic biology to date, a research team has engineered yeast with a medley of plant, bacterial, and rodent genes to turn sugar into thebaine, the key opiate precursor to morphine and other powerful painkilling drugs that have been harvested for thousands of years from poppy plants.

During the stress period, half of the mouse mothers (control and early - life stress) received a standard rodent diet, the other half received a diet that was supplemented with essential micronutrients.

But scientists have questioned whether these expressions convey anything to other rodents, or if they are simply physiological reactions devoid of meaning.

Or even the rodents — since they're the biggest problem of them all when it comes to driving other species extinct.

Besides a few rodent fossils and the remains of an owl that probably fell into the Dinaledi chamber by mistake, there are no other vertebrate species present.

Remnants of genes from these viruses exist in the DNA of bats, marsupials, rodents, and other mammals, a finding that may suggest where these deadly microbes lurk before they emerge to kill people.

And in terms of some surgical procedures, implants, developing prosthetics, or other therapies, nonhuman primates can prove better suited than rodents.»

He is working with the Environmental Protection Agency and other groups to test the impact of pollutants on human and rodent cells.