Chemical signals are omnipresent in sexual communication in the vast majority of living
organisms. The traditional paradigm was that their main purpose in sexual behaviour was to …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Females of many species choose to mate with old rather than young males, possibly
because older males pass superior genes on to their offspring. Recent theoretical and …

The book aims to integrate our understanding of mammalian societies into a novel synthesis
that is relevant to behavioural ecologists, ecologists, and anthropologists. It adopts a …

Scent-marking is a ubiquitous form of olfactory signaling in male mammals and both
territorial males in resource-defense mating systems and dominant males in dominance …

Highlights•We describe a novel paradigm to study the temporal dynamics of mouse
dominance hierarchies.•Mice reliably form significantly linear and stable dominance …

Studies of mate choice in vertebrates have focused principally on birds, in which male
ornaments are often highly developed, and have shown that females commonly select …

In rodents, where chemical signals play a particularly important role in determining
intraspecies interactions including social dominance and intersexual relationships, various …

Males of many species produce scent marks and other olfactory signals that function to
intimidate rivals and attract females. It has been suggested that scent marks provide an …

Voluntary urination ensures that waste is eliminated when safe and socially appropriate,
even without a pressing urge. Uncontrolled urination, or incontinence, is a common problem …