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Comment
. 2015 Jun 1:145:127-8.
doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2015.03.021. Epub 2015 Mar 19.

Response to Masi and Bouret - commentary on Klailova and Lee's (2014) "Wild western lowland gorillas signal selectively using odor"

M Klailova  1 , P C Lee  2
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Response to Masi and Bouret - commentary on Klailova and Lee's (2014) "Wild western lowland gorillas signal selectively using odor"

M Klailova et al. Physiol Behav. .

Abstract

In a previous paper, we suggested that gorilla silverback males used odour as a chemosignal about levels of risk during interactions with extra-group males. We suggested that, rather than being monotonically associated with arousal as Masi and Bouret have now proposed in their commentary, the strength of an odour was a variable response to within as well as between group risks. We all agree that the phenomenon needs further investigation.

Keywords: Chemosignalling; Intergroup encounters; Odour variation; Response to risk; Silverback arousal.

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