There has been increased interest in the role that sex and gender have in the perception and experience of pain. The general finding is that women experience more pain when compared to men. The aim of this chapter will be to provide readers with an overview of the themes that have emerged ...
malefemalecatsex differencesPaw preference assessed by a food-reaching test was studied in male and female cats. Of the total sample (N = 66), 34 (51.5%) were right-preferent, 24 (36.4%) left-preferent, and 8 (12.1%) ambilateral. In the total sample, there was evidence for an ...
female rats have a smaller ejection fraction and exhibit less fractional shortening in comparison to age-matched males [95]. Studies in cardiac muscle strips from rats found similar results, in that responses were smaller and slower in females...
Dogs and Cats One might expect that there would be loads of data on the relative longevity of male versus female house cats and dogs, the most common species of companion animals in the world. Surprisingly, there is relatively little information on these two domestic species. The best data on...
We included age (6 months to 17 years) as linear and quadratic covariate, and sex (male and female) and owner identity (60–188 per breed) as categorical fixed effects. Owner identity was defined as ‘other’ for the owners having only one cat in the data. We specified the flat prior...
Using LDSC, female-stratified MDD was the only dataset showing significant positive correlations with metabolic traits, and specifically with BMI in women and men, and WHRadjBMI in men (Fig. 1). While MDD in men did not show a significant association with any metabolic trait, all correlation...
Most microhabitat features were similar between burned versus unburned areas, but fire had differential impacts on the ecology of male versus female toads. In burned areas females were less numerous but were larger, in better body condition, and had consumed more prey (especially, coleopterans and...
Axon number in the splenium was examined at 15, 25 and 60 days of age in male and female rats. The splenium (posterior fifth) of the corpus callosum was found to contain the axons from the visual cortex at all three ages and was extensively sampled with electron microscopy. Overall, there...
Picrotoxin also produced a significantly greater increase in the frequency of the spinal motoneurons discharge in the female than in male rats (444% of control compared to 222% of control). A similar significant difference to the analogous treatment was obtained in the female and male cats (439...
Humans’ individual differences including their demographics, personality, attitudes and experiences are often associated with important outcomes for the animals they interact with. This is pertinent to companion animals such as cats and dogs,