Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Vole Update!

At the moment, I have survived my (second) first anatomy lab and I reek of formaldehyde.

But ... I just learned that voles mate for life. My friend Minh was willing to get close enough to me to report this very exciting fact. He was completely unaware of my recent interest in the rodents.

It seems that voles have more receptors for vasopressin and oxytocin, chemicals that work in voles and human to produce the very romatic-sounding "pair bonding." We get it when we cuddle or when someone leaves the toilet seat down for us.

Here are some vole life-partners for you:

2 comments:

Unknown said...

"We get it when we cuddle or when someone leaves the toilet seat down for us."

OK OK!

:)

Unknown said...

You're out of _controle_ with these voles!