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Description: |
volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: Introduction: the pheromone concept in mammalian chemical communication / David W. Macdonald and Richard E. Brown -- Sources of significant smells: the skin and other organs / Peter Flood -- Prototherians: order Monotremata / Eleanor M. Russell -- Metatherians: order Marsupialia -- Primitive eutherians I: orders Insectivora, Macroscelidea, and Scandentia / Dietrich v. Holst -- Primitive eutherians II: a case study of the tree-shrew, Tupaia belangeri / Dietrich V. Holst -- Bats: order Chiroptera / Uwe Schmidt |
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Contents: Primitive ungulates: orders Tubulidentata, Proboscidea, and Hyracoidea / Richard E. Brown -- Rodents I: effects of odours on reproductive physiology (primer effects) / Richard E. Brown -- Rodents II: suborder Myomorpha / Richard E. Brown -- Rodents III: suborder Sciuromorpha / Zuleyma Tang Halpin -- Rodents IV: suborder Hystricomorpha / David W. Macdonald |
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Additional Physical Forms: |
Online version: Social odours in mammals. Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Clarendon Press, 1985- (OCoLC)899748845 |
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Index - Uncontrolled: |
Mammals Olfactory perception |
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Name Added Entry: |
Brown, Richard E., editor. |
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Series Added Entry: |
Oxford science publications. |