Marmosets scent glands

Epple, G., Belcher, A. M., Kuderling, 1., Zeller, U., Scolnick, L., Greenfield, K. L., and Smith, A. B., 1993, Making sense out of scents - species-differences in scent glands, scent marking behavior and scent mark composition in the Callitrichidae, in Marmosets and Tamarins, Systematics, Behaviour, and Ecology, A. B. Rylands, ed., Oxford Science Publications, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 123-151. 

Marmosets and tamarins possess a rich repertoire of chemosignaling behaviors. These patterns result in the application of a number of secretions and excretions to items in the environment, to the bodies of conspecifics and to their own bodies. Chemosignaling is associated closely with investigatory behaviors. Individuals of all species sniff and lick each other s bodies and scent glands in a number of sexual and spcial situations. Sniffing and occasional licking of scent marks deposited into the environment is also common (Christen, 1974 Epple,... 

Sutcliffe, A. G. and Poole, T. B., 1978, Scent marking and associated behaviour in captive common marmosets (Callithrix j acchus jacchus) with a description of the histology of scent glands, J. Zool.,... 

Wislocki, G. B., 1930, A study of scent glands in the marmosets, especially Oedipomidas geoffroyi, J. Mammal., 11 475. 

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