Sentences with word «vole»

Among the questions raised by the discovery is whether male prairie voles in the wild can trigger the crucial circuit without mating, says Elizabeth Hammock at Florida State University in Tallahassee.

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But when Eilam took groups of voles with different individual anxiety levels and exposed them to barn owls, they all ended up equally stressed out.

A scheme to eradicate mink on Anglesey, which has one of the most significant populations of water voles in Britain, is now being extended to the mainland to try and prevent mink from crossing the Menai Straits, before moving across North Wales.

A transgenic meadow vole with added vasopressin receptors suddenly discovers the rewards of monogamy.

Oxytocin is another hormone released during sex (and also during childbirth and nursing) that strengthens social bonds, and female voles with more oxytocin receptors are also more likely to mate for life.

Once they had identified the «love» circuit, the researchers devised a way to activate it themselves in female voles using a technique called optogenetics.

* 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.

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

PhD Title: «Individual Differences in Exploratory Behavior of Prairie Voles, Microtus ochrogaster»

Aside from voles and chickens, the museum will also host a new pop - up exhibit about its creation and history that includes historic photos of the Chicago Academy of Sciences.

This is important, as voles occasionally suffer catastrophic local population crashes.

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.

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.

The drug boosted dopamine, a brain chemical involved in pleasure and motivation, equivalently, but pair - bonded voles had fewer receptors ready to receive the dopamine signal.

Functional variation in vasopressin 1a receptor gene structure within and between vole species predicts behavior Elizabeth Hammock, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Emory University, Atlanta, Georga, USA

«Early onset of winter triggers evolution towards smaller snow voles in Graubünden.»

Although scientists have observed the behavioral and chemical side of prairie vole love, the neural networks behind commitment are still a mystery.

Rolf Ims and colleagues at the University of Tromsø trapped Norway lemmings and grey red - backed voles at 109 locations in north - east Norway to monitor population changes before, during and after a lemming population outbreak.

The researchers found that the prairie vole couples behaved like human couples in terms of how alcohol affected their relationships.

A field vole jumped from the rusting springs.

After the player resets many times in Animal Crossing: Wild World, Mr. Resetti will talk about his cousin Vicious Vole Vinnie.

«Some prairie vole brains are better wired for sexual fidelity.»

These are prime habitat locations for voles, mice and other small rodents.

Conquering the divide and mating with a female after just six hours of her company can form a lifelong pair - bond between voles.

But the treated voles preferred to cuddle with the familiar female.

(Making a transgenic mountain vole would have been much more difficult.)

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.»

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.

MUTATIONS in the DNA of voles found in the «hot zone» around the devastated Chernobyl nuclear plant are cropping up at a far higher rate than expected.

Normally, meadow voles show no allegiance to their old partner and hook up with the newcomer.

Natural selection, the researchers conclude, does not appear to favor one set of genetic characteristics over the other, but instead allows for the co-existence of the seemingly contrasting traits, creating evolutionary space for both monogamous and nonmonogamous voles.

After mating, most voles remain monogamously attached for life, raising pups together in a rodent version of domestic bliss.

«I'd like to have a human equivalent to the prairie - vole model,» she says, looking wistful.

Young's team has also shown that blocking corticotropin - releasing factor (CRF), a hormone involved in the stress response, stops the depressive behaviour that prairie voles exhibit when their partner dies.

The team chose to study pair - bonding in prairie voles because they are one of the few species that mate for life.

Deer don't bother it, but voles occasionally do.

Like humans, a few voles are very anxious, a few are not at all, and most are in the middle.

Their lives may be short — they're an easy snack for hawks and snakes — but once two prairie voles mate, they are bonded until the end.

The star of the show was Andrea Riseborough as Romaine, showgirl and not - quite - wife of the young ex-soldier Leonard Vole (Billy Howle) accused of the crime.

Tiptoeing shyly further into the space, you clutch the traditional cotton cloth peştamal to your chest like a startled vole when, emerging from the fog, a bare - breasted masseur looms into view.

After deciding to call a wild animal rescue center to help us care for Tom, we found that the sweet little vole angels had peacefully welcomed him home.

A nice little review of new study about voles exhibiting empathic behaviors toward one another.

It is one of the main reasons why water vole numbers have plummeted in recent years, making them Britain's fastest declining mammal.