Sexual attraction function of golden hamster vaginal secretion
1974; Academic Press; Volume: 12; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/s0091-6773(74)91101-8
ISSN1557-8267
Autores Tópico(s)Plant and animal studies
ResumoMale golden hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) were tested in their home cages for attraction to various female hamster odors. An odor was presented inside one stimulus bottle while a second bottle was a clean control. Sexually experienced and sexually naive males were strongly attracted to the vaginal secretion of estrous as well as 1-day postestrous females, and spent a large percentage of test time sniffing at this odor. The odor also elicited licking of the bottle top, even though the males could not lick the secretion. After standing in the air at 22°C for 12 or 24 hr the attractiveness of the vaginal secretion was greatly reduced. Males were not attracted to female urine odors. These experiments demonstrate a sex-attractant function for the hamster vaginal secretion odor.
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