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The anxiogenic compound yohimbine inhibits intermale attack and increases conspecific sniffing; however, it decreases preference for male odors. This experiment explored the generality of yohimbine’s olfactory effects by assessing drug effects on searching for buried food items. Drug treatment had no effect on the location of buried or unburied rewards. This finding suggests that yohimbine’s olfactory effects may be restricted to conspecific odors. These findings underscore the need for further study of olfactory function among drugs having antiaggressive effects in common.
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Rawleigh, J.M., Kemble, E.D. Yohimbine does not impair performance on an olfactory discrimination. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 30, 81–82 (1992). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330403
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