Sentences with phrase «whiff of pheromones»

A MALE silk moth gets a whiff of pheromones and begins a complex search pattern to track down a potential mate — a brief surge forward, an intricate zigzag, a sweeping loop.

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Though they are found across the animal world from insects to mammals, research into human pheromones has been dogged by flaky experimental designs and dubious commercial endorsements, with the result that the entire field has a whiff of the disreputable about it.

Once a tapping finger or a whiff of hostile pheromones locks them into a defensive position, their nests become harder to spot.

Then they took a hefty whiff of either yeast (a control) or androstadienone, a suspected male pheromone present in sweat (which was also mixed with yeast to mask any perceptible odor), and played the game again.