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Animal behavior is formed through evolutionary adaptation, survival and reproduction, and the seemingly unsightly behavior of smelling each other's butts is part of animal socialization.
Animals use their sense of smell to identify their own kind, to judge sex and health, as well as identity information, and to recognize other animals' physical states, such as mood and health, through their sense of smell.
Why is there so much information about smelling each other's butts?
How much information does the anus release?
1. Sniffing each other's buttocks is a communicative behavior of animals.
The way animals mate and the timing of mating are more direct and simple than humans, so there will be more mating links for animals.
Smelling each other's buttocks is a prelude to animal mating, which is very similar to human behavior, and humans use their sense of smell to know whether the person is suitable as their partner, such as blind blind dates, handkerchiefs or smells on bed sheets.
In fact, animals also judge whether they are suitable for mating with each other by the smell of each other, and whether they are suitable to cooperate with each other.
This act of sniffing the other person's buttocks is called a social behavior, and the behavior of humans choosing to smell the baby's head after birth is also a social behavior.
In order to confirm whether the child is her own flesh and blood, the mother will smell her child's head, and the human sense of smell is far less sensitive than the animal's sense of smell, so the child will be cut off the umbilical cord and immediately placed in the mother's arms for the mother to confirm.
The animal that also smells the other person's buttocks also uses the smell of the other person's body to confirm the identity and physical condition of the other person, and whether they are suitable to mate with the animal.
And the dog smells the other party's buttocks, in addition to confirming the identity of the other party, there are many aspects of information.
Second, the purpose of smelling each other's buttocks.
Why does smelling the other person's ass convey so much information, and what is the purpose of smelling the other person's ass?
The purpose of smelling each other's buttocks is very simple and direct, that is, to confirm the identity of the other party and judge whether they are suitable for social interaction and contact with each other.
When a dog meets a strange dog in an unfamiliar environment, they will first sniff each other's buttocks and get a lot of information from it, such as the other person's identity, gender, age, health status, etc.
The act of sniffing each other's buttocks usually happens in the wild, parks, and other places where there are many dogs, and it is a very natural action for animals to smell each other's buttocks, so they don't feel that there is anything wrong with it.
And in the social behavior of animals, sniffing each other's buttocks is a relatively peaceful behavior, they will each carry out some simple social behavior, and then separate from each other, without large-scale fighting behavior.
The specific function of smelling each other's buttocks is to judge the other party's age, health, gender, etc. through the smell of the other party's anal secretions, for example, the female dog's anal secretions contain a smell, which is the male dog's sense of smell is very sensitive, and they can judge the other party's gender and the other party's health from this smell.
In the animal world, survival is the most important thing, so male dogs will give preference to healthy female dogs as their mating partners, because the offspring born in this way can better ensure survival, rather than being born starved to death.
In addition, male dogs can also tell if the other party is in estrus by smelling the smell of the other party's anal secretions, because the animal's way of survival is more direct than that of humans, so the animal will not use the reason of "busy" to refuse mating with the other party, but directly refuse the other party's mating request when the other party is not in estrus.
Therefore, smelling the smell of the other person's anal discharge can be said to be a very effective way to judge, they can clearly know whether the other person can mate with them.
And in addition to judging whether the other person can mate with you, smelling the smell of the other person's anal discharge can also determine whether the other person is your own kind, so as to avoid mating with a different person.
Smelling each other's anal secretions plays an important role in the social behavior of animals, so that they can get to know each other better and build closer social relationships.
3. Anal discharge.
Anal secretions are a very important substance, this substance can transmit a lot of information, so the role of this substance is very important.
The dog's anal gland is a very special organ, the function of this organ is to secrete anal secretions, and there is a small hole under the dog's tail, this hole is the hole of the anal gland, when the dog's anal gland has too much secretion, the dog will use this small hole to discharge the excess secretions.
The main function of the anal gland is to secrete anal secretions, and anal secretions have many functions, the most important of which is to transmit identity information.
There is also a smell in the dog's anal secretion, which is different from the smell in the anal discharge of each dog, and each dog has its own unique smell.
Dogs can use this smell to tell if the other person is their own kind and who the other person is, so the act of smelling the other person's butt can help the dog establish a closer social bond.
Dogs who rely on their sense of smell to judge are far more sensitive than we think, we can only distinguish familiar smells from unfamiliar smells through smell, and dogs can identify different animals and different individuals through smell, as well as age, health status, etc. between individuals.
The dog's olfactory system is very sensitive, mainly because the dog's olfactory nervous system is developed, the dog's nose can distinguish more than 50 kinds of smells in a minute, while the human nose can only distinguish seven or eight smells in a minute.
epilogue
Sniffing each other's buttocks is a relatively simple social behavior, but the physiological mechanism behind this social behavior is very complex, and it can provide new enlightenment for human social behavior and psychology.
Humans are also obsessed with smell, and we can also judge the identity of the other person, as well as the age and health status of the other person, and the smell of the body will also affect our emotional and social interactions.