An international collaborative research group from Japan, Germany, and Spain, centered at Iwate University, has revealed the mechanism behind the individual "scent calling card" that cats possess.
Cats spend less and less time sniffing the urine of the same cat, while they sniff the urine of an unfamiliar cat for a longer period. This suggests that cats distinguish between different urine odors and differentiate between them.
In particular, th…
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An international collaborative research group from Japan, Germany, and Spain, centered at Iwate University, has revealed the mechanism behind the individual "scent calling card" that cats possess.
Cats spend less and less time sniffing the urine of the same cat, while they sniff the urine of an unfamiliar cat for a longer period. This suggests that cats distinguish between different urine odors and differentiate between them.
In particular, th…