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"pair bond" refers to a strong, exclusive and long-term relationship between two individuals, often used to describe the bond between mating partners in animals, like birds or mammals.
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Young showed that oxytocin, a hormone previously linked mostly with labor and nursing, is crucial to the formation
of pair bonds as well as bonds between parents and infants.
The idea here is that we are wired to
pair bond as infants and again as adults.
This research, by contrast, suggests that rapid evolution of a complex social behavior
like pair bonding can occur by changing the expression of just one gene, he says.
Such pair bonds are a type of social bond that occurs in nearly all human societies.
One school of thought holds that this permanent swelling adapted to help increase the likelihood
of pair bonding.
Young is well known for studying oxytocin's role
in pair bonding in voles, and Liu studies how mother mice learn to recognize their pups» ultrasonic communications, making them both ideal for evaluating the new research.
Lastly, Sheldon's team found that in a number of cases, although collared females had
formed pair bonds with pied males, collared males had actually sired the offspring.
Daydreaming about a shared future - especially if you do it with your partner - is a way of
strengthening pair bonds, increasing attachment levels, and telling these biological drives to rest easy: this relationship is going to go the distance.8
There are many causes ranging from malnutrition to liver disease, internal and external parasites, separation anxiety to inappropriate
pair bonding between birds and their owners.
It should be mentioned that traditional laboratory rodents usually do not display
pair bond formation, a behavioral characteristic that is displayed by less than 5 % of mammalian species (Kleiman, 1977; Dewsbury, 1988).
The variation in the V1aR gene, AVPR1A, also seems to contribute to differences in
human pair bonding.
Such sex - specific responses to the same socially relevant stimuli can explain how gregarious animals are able to maintain
monogamous pair bonds.
«They maintain the same
pair bond for their entire lives,» says Ryabinin.
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A new foal is a wondrous thing when the delivery goes well, the mare -
foal pair bond, and nursing successfully happens soon after foaling.
The purpose of the study was to investigate the intervening variables for adult attachment and marital satisfaction by using caregiving and sexual intimacy variables as mediators based on
adult pair bonding relationship model of Shaver & Hazan.
After all, solitary species such as cats have less need for empathy — and its corollary, grief — than social animals, and small - brained creatures such as turtles may simply lack the brainpower or not form
lasting pair bonds.
And once you
start pair bonding you open the door for all kinds of things, like extended childhood and more complex social interactions — all the kinds of things that humans do today.»
Like many other species of anglerfish, C. jordani forms a
permanent pair bond — once a male finds a mate, he bites into her, eventually fusing with her tissue and gaining sustenance through her blood stream.
He says Ecstasy users are under the influence of a massive surge of oxytocin — the brain's «love» hormone, normally released during nursing or orgasm — which
cements pair bonds.
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.
«Of the roughly 5,000 species of mammals, only 3 to 5 percent are known to form
lifelong pair bonds,» reports MSNBC.
Beyond the enhanced emotional communication, researchers have also found that touching leads to greater closeness as well as enhanced well - being.4 In fact, just holding hands with a loved one can reduce stress responses, 5 and regular touching can lower blood pressure and increase oxytocin (a hormone that
promotes pair bonding).6
As enduring social bonds between partners are important to the psychological, physiological, and behavioral well - being (for review see Baumeister and Leary, 1995), considerable efforts have been made to identify the neurobiological mechanisms
underlying pair bond formation.
Daydreaming about a shared future - especially if you do it with your partner - is a way of
strengthening pair bonds, increasing attachment levels, and telling these biological drives to rest easy: this relationship is going to go the distance.8
«It became clear to me that romantic love is a drive that evolved over millions of years to initiate
human pair bonding and mating so as to ensure your DNA survives into the next generation».
Our most natural and longed for state is a strong, nurturing
monogamous pair bond and on this bond we base our families.»
Foals and Colostrum By Brandi Holohan, DVM, Pilchuck Veterinary Hospital A new foal is a wondrous thing when the delivery goes well, the mare -
foal pair bond, and nursing successfully happens soon after foaling.
Island foxes differ substantially from wolves, the species perhaps best known for its complex social system,
strong pair bonds, and solicitous parental care.
According to a number of studies, prairie voles have more receptors in their brains for a hormone called vasopressin, which is believed to play a key role
in pair bonding.
Pair bond formation leads to a sustained increase in global cerebral glucose metabolism in monogamous male titi monkeys (Callicebus cupreus).
Interestingly, the association between the gene variants of the OTR and AVPR1A and the quality
of pair bonding is also detected in the partner's perception of marital satisfaction (Walum et al., 2008, 2012).
Much of the available brain research takes place on animals that tend to mirror human patterns of
forming pair bonds and co-parenting.
In Trump's first year in office,
the pair bonded over golf in Japan and the US and talked on the phone more than a dozen times, in addition to several in - person meetings.