Alexander Ophir, associate professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study mating tactics in mammals, with a focus on the prairie vole, to learn about the underlying neural sources of social behaviors. A vole. Mike Tewkesbury/Creative Commons license 2.0 "Across vertebrates, males use a diversity of tactics to gain access to reproductive females, and these tactics may be associated with variation in sociability," Ophir writes.

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