One: Some General Considerations. - A Quarter of a Century of Studies of Chemical Communication in Vertebrates. - The Tetrapod Epidermis: A System Protoadapted as a Semiochemical Source. - Mammalian Semiochemistry: Issues and Futures with some Examples from a Study of Chemical Signalling in Cattle. - Motor Patterns Dedicated to Sensory Functions. - Two: Chemistry. - Chemical Control of Feeding in Herbivorous and Carnivorous Fish. - Characteristics of Earthworm Washings Detected by the Vomeronasal System of Snakes. - Chemical and Biological Investigations of Female Mouse Pheromones. - Behavioral Function and Chemistry of Volatiles From Feces and Anal Secretions of House Mice Mus musculus A Preliminary Report. - Three: Fishes. - The Evolution of Chemical Alarm Signals in Fishes. - Fish Reproductive Pheromones. - Chemosensory Orientation Mechanisms of Fish. - Release of Spawning Pheromone(s) by Naturally-ovulated and Prostaglandin-injected Nonovulated Female Goldfish. - The Structural and Functional Relationships Between Olfactory and Reproductive Systems From Birth to Old Age in Fish. - Four: Amphibians. - The Evolution of Salamander Courtship Pheromones. - Pheromonal Markers as Territorial Advertisement By Terrestrial Salamanders. - The Recognition and Use of Chemical Signals By a Nesting Salamander. - Evolution of Chemical Signals as a Premating Isolating Mechanism in a Complex of Terrestrial Salamanders. - Chemical Ecology of Kin Recognition in Anuran Amphibians. - Five: Reptiles. - Pheromones and Reproduction in Garter Snakes. - The Role of Pheromone Trails in the Sociobiology Of Snakes. - Pheromone Mimicry in Garter Snakes. - Initial Den Location by Neonatal Prairie Rattlesnakes: Functions Causes and Natural History in Chemical Ecology. - Exploratory Tongue Flicking by Green IguanasIn Laboratory and Field. - Lizard Pheromones: Behavioral Resnonses and Adaptive Significance in Skinks of the Genus Eumeces. - Chemoreception in the Homing and Orientation Behavior of Amphibians and Reptiles with Special Reference To Sea Turtles. - Six: Birds. - The Ecological and Evolutionary Challenges Of Procellariiform Olfaction. - Chemoreception and the Selection of Green Plants as Nest Fumigants by Starlings. - Seven: Mammals. - Economic Consequences of Scent Marking in Mammalian Territoriality. - Chemical Signals and Kin Recognition in Spiny Mice (Acomys cahirinus). - Genetic Basis for Individual Discriminations: The Major Histocompatibility Complex of the Mouse. - The Suppression of Ovarian Function By Chemosignals. - The Evolutionary Significance of the Olfactory Block to Pregnancy. - Puberty-Influencing Chemosignals in House Mice: Ecological and Evolutionary Considerations. - The Puberty Delaying Pheromone of the House Mouse: Field Data and a New Evolutionary Perspective. - Effects of Genotype Social Interaction and Testosterone on Esterases in Male Mouse Urine. - The Mammalian Vomeronasal System: Its Role in Learning and Social Behaviors. - Olfactory Communication Among Rats: Information Concerning Distant Diets. - Alarm Chemosignals in a Meriones unguiculatus: Prey-Predator Interactions. - Avoidance Response of Pocket Gophers (Thomomys talpoides) to Mustelid Anal Gland Compounds. - The Comparative Responses of Mice and Voles To Conspecific and Heterospecific Odors in The Field A Lesson in Social Behavior. - Morphometric Patterns Among Microtine Rodents. I. Sexual Selection Suggested by Relative Scent Gland Development in Representative Voles (Microtus). - Female-induced Delay of Puberty in Bank Vole and European Pine Vole Females. - Familial Chemosignals Interfere withReproductive Activation in Female Pine Voles Microtus pinetorum. - Odor Images: Responses of Beaver to Castoreum Fractions. - Scent-marking in Pikas (Ochotona princeps): Test of a Breeding-facilitation Hypothesis. - Histology and Gross Morphology of the Sexually Dimorphic Sternal Gland in the North American Opossum Didelphis virginiana Kerr. - Chemical Communication in Gray Short-tailed Opossums (Monodelphis domestica) with Comparisons to other Marsupials and with Reference to Monotremes. - Observations on Chemical Communication and its Glandular Sources in Selected Insectivora. - Plantar Glands in North American Mustelidae. - The Marking Behavior of Male Przewalski's Horses. - Chemical Communication Among Asian Elephants. - Territorial Scent Marking by Two Sympatric Lemur Species. - Chemical Signals in Callitrichid Monkeys A Comparative Review. - Cross-cultural Studies of Taste and Smell Perception. - Author Index. - Subject And Taxonomic Index. Language: English