image: An adult male mandrill. Mandrills have developed behaviors to socially avoid parasitized members of their troops. Fecal odor is likely a warning sign telling a mandrill not to groom another infected monkey. 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