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Flehmen vs Flehmed - What's the difference?

flehmen | flehmed |

As a noun flehmen

is .

As a verb flehmed is

(flehm).

flehmen

English

(Flehmen response)

Alternative forms

* (verb) see flehm * (noun) flehm; (nonstandard) flehman, Flehmen, Flehman

Verb

(en verb)
  • * 1994 , Lee Boyd, Katherine Albro Houpt, Przewalski's Horse: The History and Biology of an Endangered Species , page 246:
    • One can observe mucus dripping from the nostrils of stallions after they flehmen .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Flaring of the lip in mammals, associated with intensive smelling; flehming.
  • *2009 , Barbara Triggs, Wombats , page 65:
    • During the preliminary phase of courtship between captive animals, Matthew Gaughwin observed flehmen on a number of occasions when the male sniffed intensely at areas of ground where the female had previously urinated and once when the male had sniffed the female's cloacal region.
  • *2006 , Ernst Knobil, Jimmy D. Neill, Knobil and Neill's Physiology of Reproduction , page 2043:
    • Ladewig and Hart showed that when a male goat displayed flehmen after investigating female urine containing a tracer material, the urine was found throughout the vomeronasal organ.
  • *2003 , IUCN Asian Elephant Specialist Group, The Living Elephants : Evolutionary Ecology, Behaviour, and Conservation , page 99:
    • Behaviors recorded included sniffing, flehmen , blowing, avoidance, and penile erections.

    flehmed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (flehm)

    • flehm

    English

    (flehmen)

    Alternative forms

    * (verb) flehmen * (noun) see flehmen

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To exhibit the flehmen response, i.e., to draw back the lips, allowing scent to reach the , an auxiliary olfactory organ found in many animals.

    • Noun

    (en noun)