Male pandas, okay, scent-mark trees with urine, and the height of the mark shows the relative height of the panda. And bigger pandas have an advantage, so pandas will stretch up real tall while peeing so their sign will "look" taller. Now get this: some pandas have been observed to pee standing on their front legs in order to place their mark even higher!
What was that about the purity and honesty of animals?
I learned this from my auto-didactic adolescent son just now, just after hearing that our two cats each have their own scent-spot on the corner of the wall in the kitchen, and that Remover's mark is the faint smudge about an inch higher than the one Vicki maintains. If you have cats, you will have observed the same behavior in which they will rub their chin and muzzle repeatedly on objects around the house. They're depositing pheremones, chemical signals that they associate with home and comfort. I just learned also that cats will not leave their urine scent mark in the same locations where they do the chin-rub thing. It's a different set of chemicals. And some products use the chin-hormone chemical in sprays to discourage urinating. That last fact is from Petspeak: you're closer than you think to a great relationship with your dog or cat (2000, Rodale).
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