Sentences with phrase «scent mark unfamiliar»
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Rather than being an agonistic display of territorial defense, urinary scent marking by domestic dogs appears to be a means to make a strange environment smell like home, by masking the unfamiliar odors with individual urine.
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Kleiman (1966) in Behavioral Effects of Domestication volume 1, discusses how urine marking may be used to secure an unfamiliar place or object by rendering it familiar with the scent.