![]() The subject of chemical signaling, only one aspect of which is pheromone, is very wide-ranging. ![]() Our knowledge in this context was enriched by experiences during several periods of fieldwork in different ecological terrain, in India and Africa, in most of the cases by one of us (RLB). We have attempted to take into account implications of evolution, ethology, ethochemistry, and ethogenomics while studying the strategies for documenting the different forms of chemical communication in the world of big cats, especially the tiger. It has been rather like chasing a crooked shadow through a maze, for the concept of pheromones in mammals was not well understood at that time and many misconceptions on the social life of the tiger, and particularly regarding the question of olfactory ability of the tiger, obscured the views of latter-day researchers. ![]() This chapter is based on a long-standing quest initiated by one of us (RLB) in 1964 when George Schaller undertook the first detailed scientific study of the tiger ( Schaller 1967). ![]()
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