Mandrills Use Fecal Odor to Avoid Grooming Mandrills with Parasites (1 of 6) (IMAGE)

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Mandrills Use Fecal Odor to Avoid Grooming Mandrills with Parasites (1 of 6)

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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."

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Nory EL KSABI

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