Browsing by Author "Drea, CM"
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Baby on board: olfactory cues indicate pregnancy and fetal sex in a non-human primate.
(Biol Lett, 2015-02)Olfactory cues play an integral, albeit underappreciated, role in mediating vertebrate social and reproductive behaviour. These cues fluctuate with the signaller's hormonal condition, coincident with and informative about ... -
Love is in the air: Sociality and pair bondedness influence sifaka reproductive signalling
(Animal Behaviour, 2014-01-01)© 2013 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour.Social complexity, often estimated by group size, is seen as driving the complexity of vocal signals, but its relation to olfactory signals, which arguably arose to ... -
Mix it and fix it: functions of composite olfactory signals in ring-tailed lemurs.
(R Soc Open Sci, 2016-04)Animals communicating via scent often deposit composite signals that incorporate odorants from multiple sources; however, the function of mixing chemical signals remains understudied. We tested both a 'multiple-messages' ...
