Volatile components from the anal glands of the Yellow Mongoose <i>Cynictis penicillata</i>

Abstract

Twenty-two components of the odour of the anal-gland secretions of a male and a female yellow mongoose Cynictis penicillata were identified by dynamic solvent effect sampling, gas-liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry. The odour volatiles were considerably more diverse than those reported from the anal gland secretions of Herpestes auropunctatus and H. ichneumon.