One can observe mucus dripping from the nostrils of stallions after they flehmen.
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Flehmen
//ˈfleɪmən//
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During the preliminary phase of courtship between captive animals, Matthew Gaughwin observed flehmen on a number of occasions when the male sniffed intensely at areas of ground where the female had previously urinated and once when the male had sniffed the female's cloacal region.
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Ladewig and Hart showed that when a male goat displayed flehmen after investigating female urine containing a tracer material, the urine was found throughout the vomeronasal organ.
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Behaviors recorded included sniffing, flehmen, blowing, avoidance, and penile erections.
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