Meaning of lipcurl | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of flehmen.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Flehmen or lipcurl was quite common, usually by a male to the urine of a female, especially if the female was in heat.”

“Sexual activity includes lipcurl, sniffing the rear or urine of another animal, courting, attempted and/or successful mounting.”

“The lipcurl or horse laugh (flehmen in German) may occur in response to the smell of strange manure or to a variety of other odors.”

“During lipcurl, odorant molecules are being aspirated into the vomeronasal organs in the roof of the mouth (Ladewig and Hart, 1980).”

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