Biology lettersAnimalsElephantsOdorantsCuesFeeding Behavior
Odour information enables African elephants to detect differences in food quantity from afar.
Tasmin Fourie, Patrick B Finnerty, Adrian M Shrader
Published: 202610.1098/rsbl.2025.0576
Abstract
African elephants (Loxodonta africana) can rely on olfactory cues to guide foraging decisions. While odour can play a key role in indicating food quality, the potential for elephants to use odour to discriminate between food quantities from distance…
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