The Language of Smell

Auteur

Robert Burton left Cambridge in 1963 and served for two years with the British Antarctic Survey. In 1972 he returned to the Antarctic for six months to study albatrosses.

Texte du rabat

The sense of smell is at least equally important to may animals as sight and hearing. This important fact had previously been largely overlooked and is the subject of this fascinating study of the animal kingdom, The Language of Smell, originally published in 1976.

Contenu

1. The Use of Smell 2. The Mechanism of Smell 3. Attracting and Repelling 4. Homing and Hunting 5. The Odorous World of Insects 6. The Social Insects 7. Smell in Birds and Mammals 8. The Social Life of Mammals 9. What About Man? Further Reading. Index.