Goldfoot D A, Essock-Vitale S M, Asa C S, Thornton J E, Leshner A I
Science. 1978 Mar 10;199(4333):1095-6. doi: 10.1126/science.415362.
Three adult male rhesus monkeys were tested daily with intact adult female partners over the course of four or five mentstrual cycles. The males were made permanently anosmic by chemical ablation of the olfactory epithelium after the second or fourth cycle was completed. All males continued to display typical cycles of copulation with their partners after the anosmia procedures, with the shortest latencies to ejaculation occurring during the periovulatory phase of the partner's ovulatory cycle. Hence, female attractivity and cyclic copulatory performance of rhesus monkeys are not dependent upon olfactory signals.
在四到五个月经周期内，每天对三只成年雄性恒河猴与成年雌性伴侣进行测试。在第二个或第四个周期结束后，通过化学消融嗅上皮使雄性永久失去嗅觉。在嗅觉丧失手术后，所有雄性仍继续与伴侣进行典型的交配周期，射精潜伏期最短出现在伴侣排卵周期的排卵期前阶段。因此，恒河猴的雌性吸引力和周期性交配表现不依赖于嗅觉信号。
