Sugar glider

Dominance status information, coded in whole-body odor, can travel between animals in an air stream. When exposed to the odor of a familiar, dominant male, the sugar glider, P. breviceps, increases cardiac and respiration rates within 10 minutes, and levels of glucose and catecholamine in the plasma rise after 30 minutes (Stoddart and Bradley, 1991). 

Klettenheimer, B. 1994. Social dominance and scent marking in the sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps). In Chemical Signals in Vertebrates Vll (Ed. by R. Apfelbach, D. Muller-Schwarze, K. Reutter E. Weiler), pp 345—352. Oxford Elsevier Science Ltd. 

Intraspecific agonistic behavior is only displayed between communities of sugar gliders and only one or two dominant males in each community mate, maintain the territory and distribute odors (Schultze-Westrum, 1965). The dominant male apparently is the source of a community odor which functions, in part, to keep the social activities of subordinate males at a low level. If the dominant male is removed, scent-marking, scent production, mating activity, patrol activity and body weight of other males in the comimxnity increase. 

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