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flehmen: a standalone construct

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flehmen1 CONSTRUCTFlehmenLADEWIG & HART · 1980

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Ethology

a posture with head raised and upper lip curled that draws scent-laden fluid into the vomeronasal organ.

Flehmen is the distinctive posture (head raised, neck extended, upper lip curled back) that many mammals, from horses and cattle to cats and goats, perform to draw scent-laden fluid into the vomeronasal organ, the accessory smell system used to read pheromones. Ladewig and Hart's 1980 study of flehmen and vomeronasal function in male goats showed that the posture actually delivers fluid to that organ, often when a male samples a female's urine to judge her reproductive state. The referent is a chemosensory sampling behaviour, identified by the lip-curl posture and its link to vomeronasal uptake.[1]

Unit
The occurrence and context of the lip-curl posture and its vomeronasal uptake
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Recorded by observing the lip-curl posture and, experimentally, by tracing fluid uptake into the vomeronasal organ

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References

  1. Ladewig, J., & Hart, B. L. (1980). Flehmen and vomeronasal organ function in male goats. Physiology & Behavior, 24(6), 1067–1071. https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9384(80)90049-9

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