Sentences with phrase «on voles»

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

Emory postdoc James Burkett described his research on voles at a press conference on «The Neuroscience of Emotion and Social Behavior» at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego on Sunday.

European mink were widespread a century ago, living along rivers and streams and preying on voles, amphibians, crayfish, and fish.

Results of research on the voles, presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution in Montreal last month, raises questions about the full effect of radiation on animal populations and on humans.

This suggests the lemmings» huge outbreaks are largely driven by their winter behaviour, rather than external factors like food supply or predators, which should have had a similar impact on vole populations.

Not exact matches

I asked on Snapchat and after a bunch of suggestions were submitted, we settled on «vole.»

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.

Nature Museum Turning 160, Celebrates with Rock Voles and Chickens In honor of its 160th anniversary next year, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum will host a week of festivities, including a look at some of its rarely seen specimens in addition to a special pop - up exhibit focused on the museum's history.

Photos of water voles are available, for more information please contact the BASC press office on 01244 573031

* The other top achievements of BASC's Green Shoots programme in Cheshire include the recovery of the water vole population on the River Gowy by trapping and humanely dispatching mink.

Load up on adrenaline, or cool down with oxytocin About 20 years ago, neuroendocrinologist Sue Carter began examining the brains of prairie voles to understand why the small rodent indigenous to the midwestern plains of the United States is one of the natural world's great romantics.

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.

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

Research on prairie voles suggests that it's possible to predict which voles will exhibit pair - bonding behavior just by looking for those expressing the gene for AVPR1a, a specific vasopressin receptor.

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.

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.

However, it is important to know whether the response depends on the abundance of grazing animals, particularly reindeer, voles and lemmings, which are very common in tundra ecosystems.

Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden, and Oulu University in Finland, tested this through experimental warming of vegetation on tundra meadows with and without reindeer and voles.

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.

Korpimäki and his colleagues believe kestrels use UV vision to focus their hunting on areas that contain large numbers of voles.

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.

The brains of montane voles, on the other hand, have far fewer vasopressin receptors and therefore make much weaker connections between pair bonding and pleasure.

Young, who is world - renowned for his work on the role of neuropeptides in regulating social behavior, uses voles to investigate the neurobiological and genetic mechanisms underlying social behavior.

Burkett's presentation, on oxytocin - dependent comforting behavior in prairie voles, outlined an extension of his graduate work with Larry Young at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, which was published in Science in January 2016 and impressed oxytocin skeptic Ed Yong.

Much of the oxytocin research to date has been done on prairie voles, monogamous rodents that will release oxytocin only when touching a family member, Pollak says.

Should the player fail to save on multiple occasions, Resetti threatens the player, suggesting that, «I might even go a few rounds with my cousin, Vicious Vole Vinnie.»

If your cat goes outside, be prepared to deal with the dead — or worse, dying — birds and small mammals (mice, voles, baby rabbits), snakes, and other wounded creatures that your cat may leave on your doorstep!

Other wildlife that spend winters on the Arctic archipelago like the Svalbard rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta hyperborea), the sibling vole (Microtus levis), and the Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus) are undoubtedly affected by these extreme weather events, but researchers focused on the wild Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus).

You can also try just keeping your lawn short; voles love to hide in longer grass, so they'll move on if the grass is too short.

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).

Studies on humans have found that, like voles, our oxytocin receptors are situated in pleasure areas of the brain.

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.