Sentences with phrase «leaving scent marks»

This eventually leads to an optimization of the path: Since pheromones are evaporative, the scent is the stronger the shorter the trail is — so more ants follow the shortest trail, again leaving scent marks.

«The chemical traces in the urine are unique for each lemur, so by leaving scent marks the lemurs can interact and bond with their family without meeting them,» says Dröscher.

Young cats, leaving their mother, and wandering adults nervously left their scent marks and deposited their scats (poop) in conspicuous locations along the trail too, to avoid antagonistic encounters with the cat that «owned» the territory.

From tigers to ferals to house cats, all felines stake out a territory and leave scent markings on objects.

Plus it lets them leave scent markings, which dogs like to do.

Felines must scratch to stretch their muscles, shed old cuticles, sharpen their claws, and leave scent marks.

Cats scratch to leave scent marks that define their territory and tell other cats they have passed through.

They want to leave their scent mark, and there's probably something more satisfying and natural about going in the grass or dirt.

Not exact matches

Gray foxes in the mountains of California have been filmed deliberately rubbing themselves in the scent marks left by pumas — possibly as odour camouflage against other large predators such as coyotes.

Swaisgood had previously shown that giant pandas pay more attention to handstand scent marks than those left by less acrobatic means, but he had never compared the effect of handstand marks of different height.

At first, your flitting, neon swarm leads you to trackable markings left by monsters in real time - footprints, scratches, globs of mucus - and, once you've gathered enough evidence they'll catch the scent of the target monster itself, leading you straight to it with a marker on your map.

But there lingers a distinct presence, of a woman who seems to have disappeared abruptly - leaving behind a single sexy dress in the closet, a puzzling mark on the wall, and the suffocating scent of jasmine.

Scratching is a normal cat behavior and lets the cat leave their marking scent, stretch their muscles and groom their nails.

Male and female dogs both will use raised leg to urinate instead of squatting, leaving off their scent and marking their territory.

Cats scratch for many reasons: to remove the dead outer layer of their claws, to mark their territory by leaving both a visual mark and a scent (they have scent glands on their paws), and to stretch their bodies and flex their feet and claws.

Cats scratch to «mark» their territory by leaving behind visual markers as well as scent markers from small glands in the pads of their feet.

It leaves behind a visual mark to mark territory, and the scent glands in the paws leaves olfactory markers behind.

She can still leave her mark behind by rubbing the sides of her face (which also have scent glands) on the furniture.

Animals mark their territory by leaving subtle scent clues when they rub against people and objects.

This normally leaves a small amount of scent marking fluid that other dogs identify one another by.

Familiar Territory — Face - rubbing and scratching surfaces leaves your cat's scent, and marks the territory with a personal touch.

Lions mark and leave scent for other conspecifics by scraping, urine and feces marking and they score trees and logs.

If they are scratching the side of the sofa, then they are telling you that is where they want to mark and leave their scent, put a scratching post right next to the arm of the sofa!

Mark territory: Sweat glands in the cat's foot pad leave a scent reminder that this is a cat's area.

One of the main reasons why adult cats scratch on things is to mark their territory, which gives a visual notification that something is theirs, as well as leaves their scent (cats have scent glands in the pads of their paws).

To mark their territory by leaving both a visual mark and a scent — they have scent glands on their paws.

Puppies also leave their own scent, including Pee Mail when they leg - lift and mark with urine.

They may also try to mark over spots in which they sense other animals have left scents in the past.

In addition to leaving a visual mark from his claws, he leaves an olfactory mark through the scent glands.

We also found that cats tend to scratch items in your home in order to mark their territory by leaving both a visible mark of their passing as well as a scent.

According to Livestock Guardian Dogs.org «When protecting its livestock, the first line of protection is the scent marks left around the perimeter of its yard or field.

Since their paws have scent glands that leave a distinctive scent, cats scratch surfaces in your home to let other cats know that they're wandering into marked territory even if you don't have any other cats, your kitty doesn't know when one might show up!

Scratching helps cats mark their territory because it leaves visible marks and invisible scents for other cats to interpret.

For one, they can leave their scent from glands on their paws and mark their territory.

Urine marking can be seen in dogs that are stressed or in intact males and females who feel compelled to leave their scent around for other dogs to pick up.

Generally, dogs mark to leave their «personal calling card of scent» to let other dogs know they were or are here, said Rachel Friedman, a dog trainer with A Better Pet LLC.

If left unneutered, adult males will develop oily bald spots on their forehead and chest used for scent - marking.