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SUBMITTER: Sarabian C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5717664 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sarabian Cecile C Ngoubangoye Barthelemy B MacIntosh Andrew J J AJJ
Royal Society open science 20171108 11
Avoiding biological contaminants is a well-known manifestation of the adaptive system of disgust. In theory, animals evolved with such a system to prevent pathogen and parasite infection. Bodily products are human-universal disgust elicitors, but whether they also elicit avoidance behaviour in non-human primates has yet to be tested. Here, we report experimental evidence that potential exposure to biological contaminants (faeces, blood, semen), as perceived via multiple sensory modalities (visua ...[more]