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A body secretion that regulates the behavior of other individuals in an animal population, serving such functions as sex attraction, trail marker, or warning signal.
Entomologists know that moths use pheromones to locate their mates. Yet when these chemical odors are widely dispersed in a windy, turbulent atmosphere, the insects still manage to fly in the right direction over hundreds of meters, or feet, with only random puffs of their mates' pheromones spaced tens of seconds apart to guide them.
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A pheromone that elicits an alarm reaction in an animal-species population, causing an excited behavioral state.
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A pheromone that produces a behavioral reaction by an organism.
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A chemical substance exchanged among members of the same species that induces a state of alertness or alarm in the face of a common threat: Jeff read about thealarm pheromone referring to the release or ejection of a certain substance to alert the others of the same species of an oncoming danger, threat, or attack.
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