I knew there had to be a reason….
I will be getting some and spraying it on all the assholes I meet…..
Originally shared by Lacerant Plainer
How to attract a Jaguar to a camera trap : Apparently all you have to do is use Obsession for Men by Calvin Klein around the camera and wait for the magic. Jaguars are largely solitary animals and is often described as nocturnal, but is more specifically crepuscular (peak activity around dawn and dusk). It’s solitary and elusive nature makes it a hard animal to study, especially since sighting it is so difficult.
Article extract: According to Miguel Ordeñana a biologist from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles you spray a men’s cologne — that’s right Calvin Klein Obsession for Men on a tree branch near the centre of your camera’s field of view. This odd preference was discovered by a researcher at the Bronx Zoo in New York who tried a whole bunch of different scents and found that the jaguars really, really liked Obsession.
Why? Well we’re not really sure. But the best guess is related to the fact that Obsession contains two chemicals: civetone and vanilla extract. Perhaps the vanilla triggers the curiosity of the jaguar — we really don’t know. But we know a lot more about civetone, one of the oldest-known perfume ingredients.
It’s a musky chemical collected by glands near the anus of the civet, and it’s widely used as a fragrance and stabilising chemical in perfumes. The poor animal that supplies the much valued civetone is the civet, a mostly nocturnal animal from tropical Africa and Asia. It looks like a cat but it’s more closely related to a mongoose. Why would a jaguar be interested in civetone? Well, jaguars like to mark out their territory, and the civetone probably smells like the territorial marker of a potential invader. So the jaguar responds by rubbing its own scent on top of the cologne Calvin Klein Obsession for Men and bingo, it unknowlingly gets photographed.
So if you are on a bushwalk through the jungles of Nicaragua you might be better off not wearing Calvin Klein Obsession for Men.
Article link: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/10/29/3877338.htm
Research paper: http://www.jwildlifedis.org/doi/pdf/10.7589/0090-3558-49.1.214
Additional source: http://goo.gl/lH9yt3
Related paper: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf401819s
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar
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