Acomys cahirinus

Janus C. (1988). The development of responses to naturally occurring odors in Spiny Mice, Acomys cahirinus. Anim Behav 36, 1400-1406. 

Porter, R. H. and Etscom, F. (1974) Olfactory imprinting resulting from brief exposure in Acomys cahirinus. Nature 250, 732-733. 

Spiny mice, Acomys cahirinus, use all senses interchangeably in locating prey (Langley, 1988). These are cases of adaptive redundancy at the level of the sensory modalities. As is well known, deaf-blind humans use smell and taste more. 

Spiny mice Acomys cahirinus Associate with familiar siblings anosmics do not discriminate Porter, 1986... 

Langley, W. M. (1988). Spiny mouse s (Acomys cahirinus) use of its distance senses in prey localization. Behavioral Processes 16,67-73. 

Porter, R. H. (1986). Chemical signals and kin recognition in spiny mice (Acomys cahirinus). In Chemical Signals in Vertebrates, vol. 4, ed. D. Duvall, D. Miiller-Schwarze, and R. M. Silverstein, pp. 397-411. New York Plenum. 

Porter, R. H., McFadyen-Ketchum, S. A., and King, G. A. (1989). Underlying bases of recognition signatures in spiny mice, Acomys cahirinus. Animal Behaviours , 638-644. 

Mahmoud, W., Redfem, R. (1981). The response of the Egyptian spiny mouse (Acomys cahirinus) and two other species of commensal rodents to anticoagulant rodenticides. J. Hyg. (Land.) 86(3) 329-34. 

Brunjes, P.C. (1983) Olfactory bulb maturation in Acomys cahirinus , is neural growth similar in precocial and altricial murids Dev. Brain Res., 8, 335-341. 

Porter, R. H., Deni, R., and Doane, H. M., 1977, Responses ol Acomys cahirinus pups to chemical cues produced by a foster species, Behav. Biol. 20 244-251. 

Haim, A., Shanas, U., Oates, K. M., Sample, C. B., Buzzell, G. R. 1997. 5 - aminolevulinate synthase is present, but porphyrin does not accumulate, in the Harderian glands of the blind mole rat, Splax ehrenbergi, and two species of spiny mouise, Acomys cahirinus and Acomy russatus. IsrJ.Zool. (In Press). 

CHEMICAL SIGNALS AND KIN RECOGNITION IN SPINY MICE (Acomys cahirinus)... 

Makin, J. W., and Porter, R. H., 1984, Paternal behavior in the spiny mouse (Acomys cahirinus). Behavioral and Neural Biol., 41 135. 

Porter, R. H., Doane, H. M., and Cavallaro, S. A., 1978a, Temporal parameters of responsiveness to maternal pheromone in Acomys cahirinus. Physiol, and Behav., 21 563. 

Porter, R. H., and Ruttle, K., 1975, The responses of one-day old Acomys cahirinus pups to naturally occurring chemical stimuli, Z. Tierpsychol., 38 154. 

Porter, R.H. H.M. Doane. 1976. Maternal pheromone in the spiny mouse Acomys cahirinus). Physiol. Behav. 16 75-78. 

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