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Sweet tooth: Elephants detect fruit sugar levels based on scent alone

The ability to assess food quality is crucial to all organisms. Fleshy fruits are a major source of nutrients to various animals, and unlike most food sources, have evolved to be attractive and to be consumed by animals to promote seed dispersal. It has recently been established that fruit scent—the...

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Autores principales: Nevo, Omer, Schmitt, Melissa H., Ayasse, Manfred, Valenta, Kim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7593167/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33144973
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6777