Upon noticing the sexy scent of a female marmoset, a male doesn’t pursue her mindlessly, according to a new brain-imaging study. Male marmosets appear to think about—not just react to—what they’re getting into, just as people do, the authors suggest.
SCENT OF A FEMALE. A male marmoset takes a whiff of a wooden block bearing female-marmoset secretions.
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