Sex in a world of fear: Scared rodents produce more offspring

Wednesday, November 21, 2018 - 10:50 in Biology & Nature

Rodent mothers produce more offspring after smelling odors produced by frightened males. This is reported by a team of biologists from Finland and the Netherlands and bring new information the proximate and ultimate explanations of small mammal behavioral responses. Fear of being eaten has the power to shape populations and drive evolution. The effect the […]

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