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chemoreception

  • Chemoreception enables animals to respond to chemicals that can be tasted and smelled in their environments. Many of these chemicals affect behaviours such as food preference and defense.
    In chemoreception: Primer pheromones

    Primer pheromones are important in aspects of social physiology in a range of animals. In mammals they are influential in coordinating reproductive physiology, and compounds excreted in the urine are especially important (see below Behaviour and chemoreception: Mammals). For example, the

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