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2. Animal repellent - Wikipedia

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   Such a repellent may contain animal urine, dried blood, or hair. Some animals will avoid anything that has the odor of the urine of their predators. [2] Tiger urine is thus very effective at keeping away animals. [citation needed] Coyote urine has gained currency as a deer repellent. [3] Fox urine is used to repel rabbits, groundhogs ...

3. Trimethylthiazoline - Wikipedia

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   Trimethylthiazoline (TMT; sometimes called fox odor) is a constituent of fox urine and feces that may be an innately aversive odor to rodents. [1] The chemical is liquid at room temperature and has a very light yellow color which darkens on oxygen exposure over time.

4. Kitsune - Wikipedia

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   Because fox urine has a rat-repelling effect, Japanese people placed a stone with fox urine on a hokora of a Shinto shrine set up near a rice field. In this way, it is assumed that people in Japan acquired the culture of respecting kitsune as messengers of Inari Okami .

5. If You See a Fox, Here's the True, Unexpected Significance of ...

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   Fox sighting. Foxes are beautiful creatures that are part of the Canidae (Canine) family which includes jackals, wolves and coyotes. They are not very common to see, which means if you're lucky ...

6. Self-anointing in animals - Wikipedia

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   Wild wedge-capped capuchin monkeys (Cebus olivaceus) self-anoint with millipedes (Orthoporus dorsovittatus).Chemical analysis revealed these millipedes secrete two benzoquinones, compounds known to be potently repellent to insects [6] and the secretions are thought to provide protection against insects, particularly mosquitoes (and the bot flies they transmit) during the rainy season.

7. Scent rubbing - Wikipedia

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   A variety of different odors can elicit this behavior including feces, vomit, fresh or decaying meat, insecticide, urine, repellent, ashes, human food and so on. [2] [3] Scent rubbing can be produced by an animal smelling novel odors, which include manufactured smells such as perfume or motor oil and carnivore smells including feces and food ...

8. Mangy fox spotted in Hilltown. How to protect pets from ... - AOL

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   The animal was seen across from the Hilltown Township municipal building, one resident said. The Pennsylvania Game Commission confirmed to this news organization from a photo that the animal is a ...

9. Skunk - Wikipedia

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   The word skunk is dated from the 1630s, adapted from a southern New England Algonquian language (probably Abenaki) seganku, from Proto-Algonquian *šeka:kwa, from *šek-'to urinate' + *-a:kw 'fox'. [3] Skunk has historic use as an insult, attested from 1841. [4] In 1634, a skunk was described in The Jesuit Relations: