This is amazing. Elephants have this gland between their eyes and ears that discharges this phermone called frontalin from their temporal lobe. As if that wasn't cool enough, there's two types of frontalin mixed in their come-hither concoction. They are called minus and plus.
Young males have more of the plus frontalin.
But as they mature, the mixtures of plus and minus even out.
So, when the elephants are young, the plus frontalin does nothing for them.
But the even mixture attracts females and repulses males.
It was also cool because they said it's easier to study this in elephants, rather than rats, because when elephants respond to something, it's easy to tell what they think.
Elephants are amazing.
Posted by bluprnt at January 3, 2006 02:37 AM