Discrimination between individuals by scent in Lemur fulvus.
When a captive Lemur fulvus is habituated to the scent of another L. fulvus by repeatedly presenting it with that individual's scent, and is then presented with the scent of a second individual, the amount of sniffing of the scents increases, indicating that it discriminated between the scents of the two individuals. The two individuals' scents were significantly discriminated in eight of eleven different combinations of scent receiver and pair of scent donors. The two scent donors were always of the same sex and subspecies, and they could be discriminated by members of their own or of another sex or subspecies.
D000818:Animals; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006185:Habituation, Psychophysiologic; D007900:Lemur / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D009812:Odorants; D012903:Smell; D011443:Strepsirhini / Q000502:physiology*