Scent Marking on the Haggis Highway Traditional Cache
Highland Haggi: see below
Scent Marking on the Haggis Highway
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Scent marking, also known as territorial marking or spraying when this involves urination, is a behaviour used by animals to identify their territory. Scent marking is a very normal and common behavior, particularly in male dogs. Dogs mark to advertise their presence and to claim territory and resources. Urine and feces contain pheromones, or chemical messages, that convey information — age, gender, health and reproductive status — about the dog doing the marking. Both sexes scent mark, but intact males are the worst offenders, as signaling sexual availability and claiming territory is “encouraged” by the presence of testosterone.
Haggis are not known to spray, as they have scent glands along the tail, on each side of their forehead, on their lips, chin and on the underside of their front legs. They use these glands to scent mark their territory by rubbing, similar to cats
Bus loads of homo sapians on their way south have though been observed spraying here. So the cache is placed AWAY from the scent marking area, at the start of the layby inside the fence
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