Prairie voles mate for life. Much like humans, once voles form a pair bond—typically with a member of the opposite sex—they cohabitate, coparent, and even prefer each other’s company over that of ...

The study was conducted on prairie voles, a type of rodent that share similar patterns of relationship with human beings. They, like humans, like to couple-up, share a home, raise offsprings and ...

Females of the pair-bonded rodent species become attached to their lifelong mates following histone modifications near oxytocin and vasopressin receptor genes. New research uncovered an alarming ...

How do they know? Prairie voles. For... This Valentine's Day, thank voles for our understanding of love For years, scientists have known that oxytocin is important in facilitating the feeling of ...

Until recently, research in prairie voles, as with many species other than the laboratory mouse, has been based largely on behavioral and pharmacological manipulation. While this line of research in ...

Neuroscientist Zoe Donaldson takes a different approach. She looks to fuzzy, palm-sized rodents called prairie voles. “From a neuroscientific perspective, love is the biological drive that allows us ...

Ophir studies pair bonding in prairie voles, a small rodent that is known for its monogamous lifestyle. In prairie voles, initial pair bonds are formed when oxytocin and vasopressin assign higher ...