In a study published this April in the Journal of Affective Disorders, UTEP psychologist Sergio Iñiguez, Ph.D., and his co-authors make the case that prairie voles, small rodents that are found ...

Scientists have zeroed in on brain circuitry powering the desire of spiny mice to live in large groups, opening the door to a ...

How does sex relate to lasting love? To answer that question, scientists have long studied a small Midwestern rodent called the prairie vole, one of the few mammals known to form long-term, monogamous ...

Prairie voles are humble creatures, slightly smaller than chipmunks, with dishwater-brown fur. But because of their highly social behavior, they offer a remarkable window into a complex universe of ...

Summary: Scientists have identified the brain circuitry that drives spiny mice to prefer larger social groups. The study ...

Voles are small mammals that tend to have large heads, compact bodies, and short noses. Microtus means “small ear” and the voles of this genus have short ears that barely protrude from the fur ...

The virus showed up in four domestic cats, a wild rabbit, a prairie vole and 22 mice in Weld and Larimer counties. Experts don’t yet know if those animals could spread the virus to livestock or ...

As an undergraduate research assistant, I analyzed how capture patterns of adult prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) reflect their social organization. In particular, I focused on what information ...

Voles might hold the answer. There’s a tiny rodent, not much bigger than a satsuma, which has given us some amazing insight into why we fall in love, AND why we sometimes cheat. Prairie voles ...

Face it -- a great kiss makes the world dissolve, makes us dizzy with desire. "Women say they can tell if a relationship is going to work after the first kiss, after the first night of kissing ...

Given that voles and other animals generally spend more time grooming in response to reproductively active, opposite-sex conspecifics than to reproductively quiescent opposite-sex conspecifics, ...