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

(University of Jyv ä skyl ä - Jyv ä skyl ä n yliopisto) 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.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - Category: Biology Source Type: news