大象传媒

There's more to being a successful carnivore than having the right teeth. Early carnivores refined another important talent: communication, especially communication by smell. Today, viverrids like the rare fossa are equipped with a dazzling array of scent glands that they use to convey information. In the early days scent was the key to communication, and communication the key to co-operation - one of the most powerful weapons in the arsenal of those early carnivores. Today's mongooses make use of being social animals by following where another has led and tackling snakes as a group rather than one to one.