Asian Bull Elephants: Flehmen-Like Responses to Extractable Components in Female Elephant Estrous Urine
- 9 July 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 217 (4555) , 159-162
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.7089549
Abstract
Flehmen-like responses (urine tests) are one of the characteristic behavioral reactions of male Asian elephants (Elephants maximus) to cow elephants in estrus. Components of the urine of estrous cow elephants were extracted with organic solvents and partially purified by chromatography and shown to evoke Flehmen-like responses when they were presented to adult bulls.This publication has 32 references indexed in Scilit:
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