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Mandrills Use Fecal Odor to Avoid Grooming Mandrills with Parasites (2 of 6)

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Mandrills Use Fecal Odor to Avoid Grooming Mandrills with Parasites (2 of 6)

image: Grooming event between a male mandrill (groomer) and his mother (groomee). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 07 April 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by C. Poirotte at Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE)-CNRS in Montpellier, France, and colleagues was titled, "Mandrills use olfaction to socially avoid parasitized conspecifics." view more 

Credit: Nory EL KSABI


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