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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.

Prairie voles with longer stretches of repetitive genomic sequence are more attentive to mates and offspring

However, when Larry Young at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, injected female voles with a drug that blocked either dopamine or oxytocin, they became polygamous.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

The architecture suggested that behaviors associated with oxytocin release would feel good in the brains of the prairie voles but leave the montane voles relatively unaffected.

Upon closer inspection, scientists saw that specific neurons that fired when the voles interacted with their mates stayed silent when they interacting with a different female.

By simply activating certain circuits in the brains of female prairie voles, researchers made them «fall in love» with specific males.

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.

«When male voles drink alcohol, but their partner doesn't, their relationship suffers: Males who drink alone spend less time with their original female partner compared to couples where both drink alcohol and those which never drink.»

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.

The smelly marks allow the voles to navigate through familiar territory, and to communicate with one another.

Strong interpersonal relationships have been shown to ward off drug addiction, and new clues as to why come from prairie voles — rodents that form long - term, monogamous bonds with their mates.

Excavation revealed a deep sequence of deposits containing the elephant remains, along with numerous flint tools and a range of other species such as; wild aurochs, extinct forms of rhinoceros and lion, Barbary macaque, beaver, rabbit, various forms of vole and shrew, and a diverse assemblage of snails.

A vole female with her pups and no male are shown.

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

Through the activation of brain circuits with light, female voles were tricked into selecting specific partners

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

The prairie voles responded with increased displays of chivalry, included sniffing, licking, and grooming the females, but the mountain voles remained aloof as ever.

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.

Are some of us walking around with prairie vole brains and others are stuck with the wandering eye of a montane vole?

So when prairie voles mate, their bodies produce vasopressin, which causes their brains to reward the vole couple with a flood of pleasurable emotions, sealing the social bond.

Not so with the prairie vole's close genetic cousin, the philandering montane vole.

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.

Unlike, say, monogamous voles, whose nipples hang towards the ground, Young said in the book he co-authored with Brian Alexander.

Retell the story Over and Under the Snow by Kate Messner while incorporating the following poses: crescent moon, tree, skier, squirrel, owl, vole (mouse), frog, beaver (table with shins / feet together for tail), fox (balancing table with one leg out for tail, do both sides), bear, bee.

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.»

Cats get a lot of these parasites through predation — killing — a possibility in owned cats with outdoor access or the potential for visits from mice, voles and other transport hosts, such as fleas.

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!

In a period with high rabbit abundance, cat predation corresponded to 4 % of annual production of rabbits and to about 20 % of annual production of field voles (Microtus agrestis) and wood mice (Apodemus silvaticus).

Voles are about three to five inches long and basically look like mice with shorter tails.

Oxytocin helps keep female prairie voles bonded with their partners.

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.