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The publication says female residents wake in the middle of the night when they feel the late Ozzie nuzzling their necks.
The Huangshan phenomenon that has most inspired painters and photographers is the sight of cottony clouds nuzzling the mountainsides.
Females lack an estrous cycle and anestrous adults are dependent upon direct contact with a non-volatile male pheromone for induction of estrus [ 8 ] . Hormonal control of scentmarking and sexual behavior of this species (hereinafter, opossum) has been described in some detail [ 9 10 ] . Estrus is induced when females nuzzle scentmarks from the androgen-dependent suprasternal (chest) gland [ 10 11 ] . Nuzzling delivers nonvolatile chemical signals to the vomeronasal organ (VNO) [ 12 ] and surgical removal of the VNO prevents induction of estrus by scentmarks alone [ 13 ] , although cautery ablation of the VNO fails to prevent ovarian activation and ovulation in females that are caged with adult males [ 14 ] . While anestrous adults are reliant on male pheromone for reproductive activation, spontaneous postlactational estrus occurs in the absence of direct contact with male pheromone [ 15 ] .
In the present study, we compared body (somatic) growth and ovarian activity in females given daily, nuzzling contact with male scentmarks (exposed) with that in females individually caged in a mixed sex colony but isolated from direct contact with male scentmarks (unexposed).