During mating season, male snakes exhibit tracking behavior when they follow chemical pheromone trails deposited on the ground by females. Design a controlled experiment to determine wheter a male garter snake will track only a female of his species or will also follow the female of a related species.Designing a controlled experiment of pheromones?
Establish multiple trails of pheromones extracted from different snake species. Catch a bunch of male garter snakes and let each one go in front of the starting point for the different trails. Record which trail each male follows and determine if they choose the trails of their own species more often than the trails of another species.
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