Camelids Orgling Sounds Help Female Alpacas to Ovulate |Biomedgrid

Reproductive behavior is an important component of breeding in animal kingdom. The importance of pheromones produced, especially by the male is well recognized for successful breeding. Influence of sounds emitted, and visual and physical contact between male and females of numerous animal species is noted. Hypothesis was tested that orgling, the male sound produced during mating in camelids results in spontaneous ovulation in females. The size of ovarian follicles in three groups of alpacas were recorded by ultrasonography. The orgling sound of male alpaca induced ovulation in females having ovarian follicles ≥7mm.