Getting To Know Flethmen's Response To Cats To Access Information Through Smell

Illustration of the flehmen response in cats (Freepik/wirestock)

YOGYAKARTA Cats have a strong sense of smell. When your anabul at home twists your face or grimens and your nose sniffs around objects, this is called the Flehmen response.

Flethmen is a behavioral response seen in cats and other animals, such as goats, tigers, and horses. This response helps them to process odors that attract attention, such asiris or chemical compounds issued to convey messages to other members of its species regarding region, breeding, and identification. The response to excitation that is usually in the form of this odor, allows animals to access information through better smell.

This flehmen response is intentional, unlike when animals are attracted to the smell of food and saliva. When cats do a flehment response, they will usually open their mouths. The movement allows air to pass through their veteron organs, or called the VNO or Jacobson organs. VNO is an additional smell organ located at the bottom of the nasal cavity. It is used to processELs and hormones released by other animals, usually from the same species.

Most animals, including cats, show a flehment response because they have a hole in the roof of their mouth, right behind their front teeth and are connected to the VNO channel. Not only home cats, but also wild cats such as lions, tigers, horses, goats and sheep responded.

Vulnerable to cats, it is usually recognized when anabul thinns because of certain odors. Usually the lips shrink to show their front teeth, open their mouths, and breath. Sometimes the cat attaches its neck or lifts its head high in the air. This pose is only done briefly then back to normal poses.

In domestic cats, the response of the flares is used to process messages carried by an interesting aroma. In most cases, this is action of other cats. Launching PetMD, Wednesday, October 25, the response of the leherence is most often done by cats to assess the readiness of female cats to mate. They sniff out their urine as a reaction to the flavor they think is worth further investigation. Rangsangan that makes the response of the flehmen in cats, including urine, dirty washing, anal gland secretion, face secretions from other cats, and other odors that they think are new or interesting.