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flehmen

the ritual of urine sniffing; a behavioral component of libido in the male animal. The animal appears to be carrying out a test for odor in the urine. He sniffs the urine or the perineum, then extends the head, dilates the nostrils, and lifts and curls the upper lip. See also gape.

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gape lip-curl vomeronasal organ			Baker and Gonyou (1986) reported that castration at 12 mo of age was effective in reducing some sexual behaviors such as masturbation and attempted mounts, but did not greatly affect flehmen and completed mounts, nor did it decrease agonistic and "flighty" handling behaviors. Serum Steroid Concentrations at Different Phases of Production and ... by M P Epp and D A PAS Blasi and B J Johnson and J P Kayser and D M Grieger and J S Stevenson and J E M / Professional Animal Scientist This is the same organ they draw airborne scent across when lip curling--sometimes called the flehmen response. Scrapes: a fascinating enigma by Humphrey, Bob / Petersen's Bowhunting After sniffing around the doe's bed, he suddenly threw his head back and curled his lip in a classic Flehmen pose. The tree by Mitchell, Lee R. / Bowhunter			Flavr Savr flax flax-leaf rice-flower flaxseed flaxweed flay FLB flea flea bite Flea Bite Dermatitis Flea Bitten Kidney Flea-Bite Appearance flea-bite dermatitis flea-bitten flea-bitten kidney flea-borne typhus fleam fleawort flecainide flecainide acetate fleck dystrophy of the cornea fledgling period fleece Fleet enema Flegel's disease flehmen Fleischner method Fleming Flemish giant Flemming fleroxacin flesh flesh fly flesh wound flesh-eating bacteria Flesh-Eating Disease fleshy fleshy prawn Fletcher factor Fletcher twitch Fleur-De-Lis Pattern fleurette flews flex Flex-Foot Flexeril Flexibacter flexibilitas flexibilitas cerea flexibility flexibility exercise			FLEETSAT FLEETSATCOM FLEETSATCOM EHF Package FLEETSATCOM EHF Payload Fleetweek Fleetwood Fleetwood Fleetwood Area High School Fleetwood Area School District Fleetwood Brougham Fleetwood Digital Video Technology Corp. Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Rugby Union Football Club Fleetwood Town Football Club Fleetwood Youth Soccer Club Fleetwood, Charles Fleetwood, England Fleetwood, England FLEFC FLEFF FLEG Flegel's disease Flegm Flegm Flegm Flegm FLEGT Flehemening flehmen Flehmen pose Flehmen position Flehmen reaction Flehmen response Flehmen response Flehming Flehming reaction Flehming response FLEHOSPSUPPOFF FLEHS FLEI Fleiger Fleiger Fleigh FLEIS Fleischer Brothers Fleischer Jacobs Group Fleischer Studios Fleischer, Leon Fleischmann Pons Effect Fleischmann's bursa Fleischmann's bursa Fleischmann's bursa Fleischmann's hygroma Fleischmann's hygroma Fleischmann's hygroma Fleischmann-Pons experiment Fleischmann-Pons experiment Fleischner method Fleischner Society

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