Scent Communication in the Southern Plains Wood Rat, Neotoma micropus
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in The American Midland Naturalist
- Vol. 99 (1) , 206-218
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2424944
Abstract
Approach and avoidance responses in male and female N. micropus to urine, feces and sebum from the ventral sebaceous glands of male wood rats were examined. Females were attracted to male urine and sebum odors. Males preferred the scent of female urine and feces. No responses to homo-sex odors were observed. These odor cues are likely used in a sex recognition context during the breeding season.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Home Range Ecology of Uta Stansburiana StejnegeriEcology, 1962