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The Flehmen Response

The Flehmen response is a curling of the lip adopted when examining scents from other animals. It helps expose the vomeronasal organ and draws scent molecules back towards it. Presumably here he's seeing if the females are in oestrus. Looks kinda funny too !!

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Uploaded on November 1, 2010
Taken on October 25, 2010