In an experiment, male prairie voles were given a drug that suppresses the effect of vasopressin.
在一项实验中，雄性草原田鼠服用了一种抑制抗利尿激素作用的药物。
Meadow voles do not form pair bonds.
草原田鼠却不会结成配偶。
Romance is not just a concept for humans and voles.
对于人类与小田鼠来说，浪漫并不是一种概念。
So why do meadow voles not get addicted to each other?
为什么草原田鼠不对彼此上瘾呢？
What if anything do voles tell us about human monogamy?
田鼠的例子对人类的一夫一妻行为有什么样的提示呢？
为什么田鼠会坠入爱河？
So, the old voles always saw owls as predators.
所以，老田鼠一贯把猫头鹰视为天敌。
Humans are not prairie voles. We are not guinea pigs or mice.
我们不是田鼠，不是豚鼠，也不是家鼠。
The scientific tale of love begins innocently enough, with voles.
关于爱情的科学传说始于田鼠。
The offspring of such voles will therefore carry the change as well.
这种田鼠的后代也将带有这种改变。
The weasel feeds off field voles, snakes, and other small animals.
黄鼠狼吃田鼠、蛇和其它小动物。
Humans are not prairie voles. We are not guinea pigs or mice. We're humans.
我们不是田鼠，不是豚鼠，也不是家鼠。我们是人类。
Prairie voles have many vasopressin receptors in the reward centres of their brains.
草原田鼠的大脑奖赏中枢系统中有许多抗利尿激素的受体。
Prairie voles live in family groups consisting of a monogamous mated pair and their offspring.
一对单配偶的橙腹田鼠及其子女组成家庭，一起生活。
Being able to create genetic variants of prairie voles to order would therefore be helpful to research.
因此，按照要求定向培育草原田鼠变种有助于进行研究。
But there was good news with regard to otters, bats and water voles, whose populations have increased.
关于水獭，蝙蝠和水鼠的消息是乐观的。它们的数量增加了。
Monogamy in voles takes the form of a deep social attachment combined with a willingness to care for offspring.
田鼠的一夫一妻行为表现为紧密的社会性依附与照顾后代的意愿的结合。
This gene affects the angiotensin receptor system that plays a critical role in social monogamy for male prairie voles.
该基因影响血管紧缩素受体系统，该系统在雄性橙腹田鼠的社会化一夫一妻行为中起关键作用。
This means voles are evolving 60-100 times faster than the average vertebrate in terms of creating different species.
这意味着在创造不同物种方面，野鼠的进化速度比脊椎动物的平均进化速度快60-100倍。
Trends in the dispersal of the vole were consistent to the variance of population density and recruitment in the voles.
东方田鼠扩散的趋势与其种群密度及补充量的变动一致。
The normal haemogram values and several blood biochemical values of 44 mandarin voles(Microtus mandarinus mandarinus)are reported.
报道了棕色田鼠指名亚种的正常血象值及几项血液生化值。
So we are faced with the uncanny possibility that monogamy in humans is affected by essentially the same brain mechanisms as monogamy in voles.
于是我们面对着一种不可思议的可能性：人类的一夫一妻行为在本质上和田鼠的一样，受到相同的大脑机制影响。
Scientists can increase the expression of the relevant receptors in prairie voles, and thus strengthen the animals' ability to attach to partners.
科学家能增加草原田鼠相关受体的表达，以加强动物对同伴的依附能力。
I really enjoy the ingenuity of scientists testing optimism and pessimism in starlings, episodic memory in scrub jays and meadow voles, joy in rats.
我非常欣赏科学家们的创造力，他们能测试八哥的乐观和悲观，测试灌丛鸦和草甸田鼠的情景记忆，测试老鼠的欢乐。
To prove vasopressin has a "taming" effect, the researchers gave meadow voles extra V1a receptors in the ventral pallidum region of their brains.
为了证实抗利尿激素具有驯化作用，研究人员在草地田鼠的前脑腹侧苍白球区域植入额外的V1a受体。
He suggests that this variation contributes to individual differences in social behaviour-in other words, some voles will be more faithful than others.
他提出，正是这一变异导致了社会行为的个体差异，换句话说，一些田鼠将会比另一些更加忠诚。
Thee researchers said that while the love lives of voles differ from those of humans, the same brain structures work in much the same ways across different species.
研究人员指出，尽管人的情感与田鼠的还有很大差别，但在不同的物种之间，相同的大脑结构也会有相似的运作方式。
Thee researchers said that while the love lives of voles differ from those of humans, the same brain structures work in much the same ways across different species.
研究人员指出，尽管人的情感与田鼠的还有很大差别，但在不同的物种之间，相同的大脑结构也会有相似的运作方式。
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