'Love hormone' oxytocin turns fierce lions into kittens
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News tagged with hormone oxytocin
Oxytocin treatment can take lions from ferocious to friendly
Lions typically aren't keen on making new friends. The giant cats guard their territory fiercely and can mortally wound a foe with a single swipe. While aggression is an advantage for apex predators in the wild, it poses ...
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Mar 30, 2022
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Oxytocin linked to social bonding in gregarious capuchin monkeys
The hormone oxytocin is important in increasing behaviors that strengthen social bonds in highly gregarious capuchin monkeys, according to a study published by a Georgia State University research team.
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Dec 5, 2018
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Hormonal control of appetite in ants identified
Ants and humans have a lot in common at the level of genes and proteins: Numerous studies have shown that ants also possess the genetic basis of a hormone system based on the neuropeptides oxytocin and vasopressin, which, ...
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Jun 26, 2018
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Mesotocin found to be the driver behind prosocial behavior in pinyon jays
A team of researchers with the University of Nebraska has found that the hormone mesotocin plays a major role in pinyon jay prosociality. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, the group describes experiments ...
Smiling human faces are attractive to dogs—thanks to oxytocin
Researchers in the University of Helsinki's Canine Mind research project found that oxytocin made dogs interested in smiling human faces. It also made them see angry faces as less threatening. Correlated with affection and ...
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Nov 21, 2017
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Dogs' social skills linked to oxytocin sensitivity
The tendency of dogs to seek contact with their owners is associated with genetic variations in sensitivity for the hormone oxytocin, according to a new study from Linköping University, Sweden. The results have been published ...
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Sep 18, 2017
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Hormone boost makes wild seals spend more time with each other
Scientists at the University of St Andrews have discovered that grey seals are friendlier and want to spend more time with each other when their levels of the hormone oxytocin are increased.
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May 24, 2017
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Oxytocin enhances social affiliation in chimpanzee groups
The high costs of individuals going to war is perplexing. Individuals are willing to suffer costs in order to benefit their own group, through cooperating and supporting their fellow group members and acting with hostility ...
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Dec 27, 2016
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Higher hormone oxytocin levels in chimpanzees who share food
The ability to form long-term cooperative relationships between unrelated individuals is one of the main reasons for human's extraordinary biological success, yet little is known about its evolution and mechanisms. The hormone ...
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