Simulations Reveal Interplay Between Scent Marking and Disease Spread (IMAGE)

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Simulations Reveal Interplay Between Scent Marking and Disease Spread

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Scent marking plays a key role in social communication for many species. For example, cheetahs rely on scent mark signals for establishing territories and commonly scent mark elevated places on the landscape like termite mounds or trees.

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