Flehmen response in a horse Flehmen response in a Sumatran tiger Flehmen response in a tapir Flehmen response in an elk Flehmen response in a goat Flehmen...

structures constitute the accessory olfactory system. The VNO triggers the flehmen response in some mammals, which helps direct liquid organic chemicals to...

Stallion exhibiting the flehmen response...

foliage that would otherwise be out of reach. Tapirs often exhibit the flehmen response, a posture in which they raise their snouts and show their teeth...

Tapir (Tapirus terrestris) snout showing flehmen...

as visual gestures. A common facial expression is the "grimace face" or flehmen response, which a lion makes when sniffing chemical signals and involves...

dense forests. It uses loud barks, visual and postural movements, and the flehmen response to communicate and warn others of danger. The common eland is...

twinning (freemartins are the result of male-female twin combinations). The Flehmen response is exhibited by rams when they smell the urine of a ewe in oestrous...

them to "taste" the air. The use of this organ is associated with the Flehmen response. They cannot detect the sweetness of sugar, as they lack the sweet...

and chin that may extend further out than the upper lip. The curled lip flehmen response, noted above, most often is seen in stallions, but is usually...

A Baird's tapir in a zoo, exhibiting the flehmen response...

cat licking its paw during grooming A tiger "licking" the air during the flehmen response A snake licking a leaf to detect prey Licking is the action of...

developed in animals such as cats (who adopt a characteristic pose called the Flehmen reaction or flehming when making use of it), and is thought to have to...

a female, waiting for her to urinate. When she does, the male does the Flehmen response to determine if she is in estrus. If she is, he will continue...

sniffs her urine to see if she is in oestrus, a process exhibiting the flehmen response. The male will then proceed to approach her slowly to avoid alarming...

and females show a flehmen response, a characteristic curled-lip grimace, when smelling urine markings. Males also use the flehmen to detect the markings...

female's urine to detect oestrus, in a multi-step process known as the flehmen response. Once an oestrous female is detected, the male will attempt to...

courtship) and "bleat" (by infants under stress). Individuals may engage in Flehmen response, a visual expression in which the animal curls back its upper...

Flehmen response in an African buffalo...

sniffs her urine to find out if she is in estrus, a process known as the Flehmen response. If so, he continues to court and mount her. Females leave the...

female's reproductive state using the vomeronasal organ (known as the flehmen response). Dominant males try to monopolize access to females by mate guarding...

and their biology and was responsible for coining the behavioural term "flehmen". Schneider was born in Callenberg, Lichtenstein, one of six siblings in...

is a component found in horse urine during estrus that can elicit the Flehmen response. NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards. "#0156". National Institute...

A bull will follow a potential mate and assess her condition with the flehmen response, which requires him to collect a chemical sample with his trunk...

Cats may be observed to sneer, though this is probably related to the Flehmen response. In Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë used the sneer—as perceived...

Flehmen response in a tiger...

(including foreleg kicks, nudges, vocalizations, anogenital sniffs and flehmen) prior to mounting other males as observed when other rams court and mount...

abdominal or thoracic wounds. A silent animal, the waterbuck makes use of flehmen response for visual communication and alarm snorts for vocal communication...

of receiving and processing signals through the trunk is referred to as flehmen. The difference in body movements give cues to gauge if the male is interested...

for over 30 minutes, and consists of licking, ritualised postures, and flehmen if the female urinates. Males compete for dominance during the rut, rearing...