"Up till now, we'd been treating digital scent as information," he said.
The gland is rubbed against trees, rocks, and clumps of grass, with scent conveying information on identity, sex, and possibly social status of the marking individual.
This suggests that the key odorants are indeed a bee's "focus" when detecting and processing a floral scent, and information from non-key-odorants might be of much less relevance for odour discrimination and generalization.
If these predator cues were alarming, we expected that over time, some red kangaroos (Macropus rufous), western grey kangaroos (Macropus fuliginosus) and agile wallabies (Macropus agilis) would elect to not participate in cafeteria trials because the scents provided information about the riskiness of the area.
Since the program was founded in 1997, handlers have trained dogs to track scat scent to provide information on threatened and endangered species around the globe.
Links leading to relevant targets are thought to emanate a stronger information scent than irrelevant links.
In this model, the concept of information scent is identified as the 'user perception of the value, cost, or access path of information sources obtained by proximal cues' [119].
The patterns discussed are as follows; focus on goals and pay little attention to tools, using external aids to keep track of what one is doing, and following information "scent" towards goal.
Throughout the last few weeks, McAfee, a British native who claims to have dual citizenship to the U.S. and the U.K., has gone to great lengths to avoid Belize police -- including adopting bizarre disguises, hiding in both attics and "the jungle," and throwing authorities off the scent with misleading information about his whereabouts.
This suggests that they leave these sources as soon as there are signs that the search may be unsuccessful (perhaps because there is no obvious information scent).
