Chemical communication in large carnivores: Urine-marking frequencies in captive tigers and lions

Environmental and social pres-sures can result in interspecies differences in mark-ing behaviours. There is a strong relationship between marking behaviour and the environment. Therefore, closely related species that show behav-ioural differences in the wild may have different scent marking strategies. We conducted a compara-tive study of the urine-marking behaviours of tigers and lions in captivity […]