Dolphins communicate with ‘pee sources’
This finding is growing how the animal speaks with urine
Humans usually consider private action. But for many animals, it’s a decisive way Share information-But, it is that it goes beyond marking the territory. Scientists are increasingly since urinary communication since all its amazing forms.
“Overall animals want to learn about other animals, such as their sex, predominance, species,” Thomas Breithaupt, the Senior of the University of England Institutes, “and many information is in the urine.”
Recently researchers documented Amazon River dolphins (Inia geoffrensis) Strange behavior: air urine. A male rotates on the back on the water surface and expels the stream of pee in the air and almost 70% of time, as the team reported at Behavioral processesThe surrounding male approaches this spontaneous spontaneous source.
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Researchers speculate that men dolphins have their “social position or physical condition” to deliberately communicate. Claryana Araújo-Wang, Botos do the Research Project Brazilian Biologist studied. More experiments are needed, Joachim, an ecologist conduct of the University of Manchester Metropolitan in England, who did not participate in the study.
But the urine is the longest and most recent list of stories that can say. In Primates, it can give traces of individuals, gender and group members “and can help individual recognition and finding a discovery of members,” Marlen Kücklich, University of Leipzig University. Some primate also clean themselves. This behavior is not fully understood, but authors Capuchino study on monkeys Suggest that men can attract women through urine testosterone content.
In water environments, some fish use urine before fighting their size and aggressiveness. For some crustaceans, such as Lobster, the Pee’s head from the urine of their heads can provide information about the situation and information about society. Female stick fish has gained information about a male immune system, and they tend to choose men “, which are very comparable to immune systems or those compatible on their own”.
“In terms of communication, humans always have visual and acoustic visions because we are visual animals and acoustic animals,” adding. But the smell is a crucial sense, even if some species are stressed and urine is an important supplier of an olfactory information. In recent years, “people reported that we had a very limited area of communication, and the scent started thinking about the smell.”
