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The smell of danger: Rats instinctively avoid compound in carnivore urine - 0 views

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  • Ferrero discovered that one of the 14 TAARs, TAAR4, detected the odor of several carnivores.
  • a kairomone, a chemical that works like a pheromone, except that it communicates between members of different species instead of members of the same species.
  • "One of the things that's really new here is that this is a generalized predator kairomone that's volatile," s
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  • It's been known so long that predator odors are great rodent deterrents, but we've discovered one molecule that's a key part of this ecological relationship,
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