Giant pandas discriminate individual differences in conspecific scent

• Published in: Animal behaviour Vol. 57; no. 5; pp. 1045 - 1053
• Main Authors: SWAISGOOD, RONALD R., LINDBURG, DONALD G., ZHOU, XIAOPING
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kent Elsevier Ltd 01.05.1999; Elsevier; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Ltd
• Subjects: Ailuropoda melanoleuca; Animal behavior; Animal ethology; Biological and medical sciences; Endangered & extinct species; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Mammalia; Odors; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Sexes; Smell; Vertebrata; Fissipedia; Chemical communication; Carnivora; Animal communication; Endangered species; Sex; Vertebrata; Mammalia; Social interaction; Familiarity strangeness; Individual recognition; Olfaction; Perception; Captivity; Odor

The functions and mechanisms of chemical communication are well established for many species of small mammal amenable to investigation, but systematic research is virtually absent for large, rare species. The present study marks the first systematic investigation of chemical communication in the end...