ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
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It helps an animal identify mates and group members and mark territories
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It provides information to bees about a food sources location.
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It helps an animal identify alarm and distress calls.
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It provides information about an animals status in a group
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Detailed explanation-1: -A pheromone is a secreted chemical signal used to trigger a response in another individual of the same species. Pheromones are especially common among social insects, such as ants and bees. Pheromones may attract the opposite sex, raise an alarm, mark a food trail, or trigger other, more complex behaviors.
Detailed explanation-2: -Animals use pheromones in order to communicate with each other. Once they are ready to mate, they release scent signals that can trigger powerful sexual responses from their potential mates.
Detailed explanation-3: -In most mammals, pheromones usually are detected by a specialized organ inside the nose or mouth called the vomeronasal organ, or VNO. Nerves connect it to parts of the brain involved in reactions rather than cognition. In humans, the organ appears in embryos with its nerve cells extending into the developing brain.
Detailed explanation-4: -Pheromones differ from sight or sound signals in a number of ways. They travel slowly, do not fade quickly, and are effective over a long range. Sound and sight receptors are not needed for pheromone detection, and pheromone direction is not limited to straight lines. Examples of pheromone use by insects and spiders.
Detailed explanation-5: -The most important function of sex pheromones is to allow organisms to identify mating partners of the opposite gender. Predictably, chemical signals advertising gender are commonly produced in a sex-specific manner, whether male-specific, female-specific or a combination of the two.