Sentences with phrase «shorter than in males»

Female dogs get more infections because their urethras are shorter than in males.

Not exact matches

The research, funded by the Medical Research Council and published in Translational Psychiatry, also show that female cannabis smokers are potentially more susceptible to short - term memory loss than males.

The research also found that females were more vulnerable than males to impairment in short term memory after smoking cannabis.

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.

Blanco and his colleagues think male short - tailed opossums may have gained their large teeth initially for sexual display rather than for hunting: competition between males is particularly acute because these opossums breed only once in their lifetime.

In a renowned study started back in the 1950s, Russian researchers found that captive silver foxes bred for tameness also exhibited a suite of other traits, such as white patches of fur on their heads, curly tails, «feminized» faces with shorter snouts and floppy ears, and skulls in males that weren't much larger than in femaleIn a renowned study started back in the 1950s, Russian researchers found that captive silver foxes bred for tameness also exhibited a suite of other traits, such as white patches of fur on their heads, curly tails, «feminized» faces with shorter snouts and floppy ears, and skulls in males that weren't much larger than in femalein the 1950s, Russian researchers found that captive silver foxes bred for tameness also exhibited a suite of other traits, such as white patches of fur on their heads, curly tails, «feminized» faces with shorter snouts and floppy ears, and skulls in males that weren't much larger than in femalein males that weren't much larger than in femalein females.

Two years ago, Juan Carranza, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Extremadura in Cáceres, Spain, and colleagues showed that molars in male red deer were relatively smaller than those in the more petite females, and that this difference was correlated with a shorter life.

The study, published this week in Nature, found that unrelated male flies compete more fiercely for females» attention than related flies, resulting in shorter lifespans for males and reduced fecundity for females.

Hau adds that while the alpha males show higher levels of stress - related hormones in their feces, this might be due to numerous short spikes of acute stress episodes rather than one long, continuous state of chronic stress such as humans low on the totem pole might face.

Sure enough, males who bleated longer sported higher levels of testosterone and other «male» sex hormones than those with shorter bleats, the team reports online tomorrow in Biology Letters.

After 22 generations, males in the long - stalk lineage fathered more male offspring than previously, while ones from the short stalk camp sired predominantly daughters.

Prior research determined that adult male Neanderthals stood about 5 feet 5 inches, which is only 2 inches shorter than the average height for men in many parts of Asia today.

When the long - sperm producing male was last to mate, SSTs in the uterus region of the UVJ (i.e. furthest from the site of insemination) were more likely to contain long sperm than short sperm, compared to those in the vagina or middle regions (figure 1).

This distance is much shorter in females than males (in fact the openings can be difficult to distinguish in females while they are separated by about half an inch in males).

Females can be about two inches shorter and must be more refined in type than the males.

Bacterial urinary tract infections are more common in females because the urethera is shorter than a males.

Answer: Hmm, that's kind of a general question and I don't know any hard facts for you but in general, females are WAY more predisposed than males just due to their conformation (urethra is wider & shorter and opening is right next to anus).

This short male blast has been used more than 200 times in movies since then, having become an inside joke in the film industry.

Since men have shorter life expectancies, in general, males pay more than females.

Ironically, however, these shorter careers do considerable damage in the offender's adulthood, including persistent behavioral and emotional problems that are often more detrimental than those encountered by persistent male offenders.

In sum, although evidence is mixed about the relative ages at which boys and girls are most likely to begin offending, female offending careers tend to be shorter than those of males.