Forgetful Casanovas are lucky in love. At least that’s how University of Florida researchers interpret the results of new research on the mating habits and nervous systems of prairie voles. An article ...
A few years ago, Link Olson wanted students in his mammalogy class to see one of the neatest little creatures in Alaska, the northern flying squirrel. He baited a few live traps with peanut butter ...
Habitat fragmentation affects individual movements between favorable resource patches. In many small mammal species, an important intrinsic factor affecting recruitment of young is infanticide, ...
A cross-fostering paradigm was used to determine effects of early social environment on subsequent parental behavior of meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus). Meadow-vole pups were fostered to either ...
If the male prairie vole were a human guy, we might call him “highly evolved.” Among the world’s 5,500 mammalian species, he’s among the roughly 5% who, for the most part, mate for life, and who stick ...
Who takes charge during a disaster or at an accident scene? The question has intrigued sociologists since Gustave Le Bon first studied "herd behavior" in nineteenth-century France. The question of an ...
Two prairie voles, life-long mates, sit in separate cages. One hears a distinctive tone, and receives a small electric shock. When the voles are reunited, the second vole quickly starts licking and ...
Prairie voles are hamster-sized rodents with small ears and eyes and a short tail. Their coarse fur is grayish brown on the back but yellowish on the belly. The scientific name is derived from Greek ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Traditionally known for stuffing their cheeks with nuts, squirrels can be carnivorous - though recorded instances of the rodents hunting and killing other live vertebrates are rare, ...
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