Pheromones and Animal Behaviour
Subtitle: Communication by Smell and Taste
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 24, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780521485265
Subjects: Animal behaviour; Animal ecology; Animal physiology; Psychology; Cognitive Psychology; Science; Science/Mathematics; Agriculture - General; Life Sciences - Zoology - General; Science / Zoology; Chemical senses; Animal communication; Pheromones
First sentence: Elephants and moths are unlikely mates, so scientists and the general public were surprised when it was discovered recently that one of the world's largest living land animals, the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), shares its female sex pheromone with some 140 species of moth (Rasmussen et al. 1996).