Sentences with phrase «voles found»

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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.

The same brook was surveyed again this year but this time he found 12 latrines, four burrows and numerous piles of feeding remains, all positive field signs of water voles active in the area.

Conservationists have found new evidence that the endangered water vole has returned to a large section of the river Gowy.

Back Brook, a tributary of the River Gowy, was surveyed by Richard Gardner, northwest lowlands water vole officer in July 2008 and he found no evidence of water voles.

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.

They found 46 mutations in just one gene, the cytochrome b gene, in nine voles taken from the 30 - kilometre restricted zone around Chernobyl.

They found that meadow voles treated with gene therapy acted more like their prairie vole counterparts — they spent more time huddling near their original companion.

The prairie vole, a small monogamous rodent found in North America, provides a model to study this complex phenomenon.

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.

Kimberly A. Young of Florida State University and her colleagues found that pair - bonded voles responded less than unattached, sexually naive voles to the rewarding properties of amphetamine.

The researchers found that the two types of male vole have genetic differences.

The findings support the notion that nature is favoring both brain types, thus increasing the diversity of the voles.

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have found that natural selection drives some male prairie voles to be fully monogamous and others to seek more partners.

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.

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.

A paper Young published this month, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Tsukuba in Japan, found prairie voles that have bonded with a mate not only experience more anxiety when separated from their partners — they also experience more physical pain during the separation, by various measures including response to a painful injection and pain from heat.

Hawkins» analysis didn't reveal whether the rodent hair was that of deer mice, harvest mice (both of which were found less often in the cat area than in the no - cat area), house mice (found more often in the cat area), or California voles (which showed no preference for either area).

Practical cats are those who only kill pests like house mice, rats and the occasional wild voles or shrews that find their way inside our homes and other buildings.

I have found lots of dead things too - moles, voles, bats and mice!

We found that house cats will kill a wide variety of animals, including: lizards, voles, chipmunks, birds, frogs, and small snakes.»

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