Browsing by Subject "olfactory communication"

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Baby on board: olfactory cues indicate pregnancy and fetal sex in a non-human primate.

Crawford, Jeremy Chase; Drea, Christine M (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 ...
Mix it and fix it: functions of composite olfactory signals in ring-tailed lemurs.

Greene, Lydia K; Grogan, Kathleen E; Smyth, Kendra N; Adams, Christine A; Klager, Skylar A; Drea, Christine M (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' ...