A male tiger can actually tell if a female is ready to mate by smelling her urine. Tigers use the flehmen response when investigating different scents left by other tigers. The Jacobson organ is important for mating, marking territory, and intraspecific communication. A tiger opens wide to allow the scent to reach the roof of its mouth where the Jacobson organ is located. In German, the word flehmen means lip curl or curl of the upper lip. The Amur tiger pictured here is making what I like to call a “stinky face” – it is actually called the flehmen response. They have something called the vomeronasal organ, or the Jacobson organ, which processes information somewhere between smell and taste. Humans have five senses (sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch), however, cats have an extra sense. ![]() Big Cats JTigers: Smelling in High Def - as seen by - Erin Mowatt
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