The terrain includes flat prairie land to rolling hills, towering bluffs to breathtaking river and lakefront views.

It grows in moist and wet habitat, such as marshes and moist prairie land, and it may grow in shallow water.

The first was that the vast prairie land was perfect for cattle grazing.

The first settlements were in the more wooded areas near the river; it was only later that settlers realized the value of the prairie land for farming.

The site was chosen on account of the fertile prairie land around, as well as the heavy timber so close along the banks of the streams.

What can we learn about love from the humble prairie vole?

There are several conclusions that we can draw from the multitude of prairie vole research projects.

She pioneered the physiological study of socially monogamous mammals, including the prairie vole.

These rodents differ in one major way: prairie voles have oxytocin receptors in their brain; montane voles do not.

There was great excitement in the 1990s over the neuro-hormone oxytocin, which was linked (wrongly, it turned out) with monogamy in prairie voles, and dubbed 'the mono-gamy hormone'.