Results
Olfactory discrimination performance
• The fur seals succeeded in discriminating between 7 out of 12 odor pairs (corresponding to p<0.01), and 8 out of 12 odor pairs (corresponding to p<0.05).
• No significant differences in performance between the animals were found across all tasks (average difference between the best and the poorest performer was only 12.9%).
Discrimination performance of four South African fur seals with 12 enantiomeric odor pairs. Each shape of figure represents each animal. Numbers above abscissa indicate the number of animals tested on each task. Sometimes one animal could not participate in the task due to health problems.
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04/22/12