Variation in communicative complexity has been conceptually and empirically attributed to
social complexity, with animals living in more complex social environments exhibiting more …

The study of human chemical communication benefits from comparative perspectives that
relate humans, conceptually and empirically, to other primates. All major primate groups rely …

Only a handful of primate species exhibit the social relationship of pair‐bonding. Efficient
communication is critical for behavioral coordination within pair‐bonds to maintain proximity …

Seasonally reproducing animals show many behavioral and physiological changes during
the mating period, including increased signaling for intrasexual competition and mate …

Chemosignals are mediators of social interactions in mammals, providing con‐and hetero‐
specifics with information on fixed (eg, species, sex, group, and individual identity) and …

Female primates signal impending ovulation with a suite of sexual signals. Studies of these
signals have focussed on visual, and to a lesser extent, acoustic signals, neglecting olfactory …

Primate chemical communication remains underappreciated, as primates are considered to
rely on other sensory modalities. However, various lines of evidence suggest that olfaction …

To achieve reproduction, male solitary mammals need to locate females using chemical
communication with high levels of precision. In the case of giant pandas, the total estrus …

Animal signals can differ considerably in complexity and composition, even among closely
related species. Work on vocal and visual signals has revealed how sexual selection can …

Simple Summary Many animal species use body odours and secretions to communicate
with conspecifics. In this study, we observed wild lemurs (diademed sifakas) to understand …