Showing posts with label jungle cats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jungle cats. Show all posts

Saturday, February 8, 2020

Jungle cats and perfume

This article says that a zoo in London was asking for donations of perfume and aftershave for their jungle cats. Leopards, cheetahs, ocelots, jaguars and tigers love the scent of certain perfumes.  Calvin Klein's 'Obsession for Men' is particularly popular. It seems that many perfumes contain a chemical called civetone, now artificially made, but is secreted naturally by civets from their anal glands. It has a musky scent.  The article has a video showing the animal's reaction to the scent. They will paw at trees and rub their faces into logs.