Pheromones
Pheromones are chemical substances that are produced by animals to transit information with another animal of the same species. It is a chemical that changes the behaviour of another animal by just sharing. Experts describe pheromones as a behaviour altering substance.
Pheromones propel a physiological or behavioral response in the recipient , and commonly play a vital role to find mates and to interact with other animals.
Hormones generally work internally, and they are the only things that can secret two individuals.
Pheromones are not like other hormones, they secret outside the body and can become a cause to influence behaviour of another individual.
Following are the types of behaviour that get triggered by the secretion of pheromones.
- raising an alarm
- triggering sexual arousal
- delineating a territory
- bond between mother and offspring
- influence other female insects to lay their eggs elsewhere
- warning another animal to back off
- signaling a food trail