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#Fluorescent black light skin#

Skin does not fluoresce, but it looks purple under a black light. This glowing effect lasts only a few seconds and is used to investigate crime scenes (Penven 2005). To glow blood needs to be treated with a chemical developer such as Luminol, which makes the blood glow in the dark briefly even without a blacklight. Urine, porphyrin, semen, sperm and saliva fluoresce under a blacklight.īlood does not fluoresce under a blacklight: it looks black. What other substances glow under a black light? Porphyrin and other secretions coat the eye, draindown into the nose through a small duct and may appear around thenostrils. Porphyrin, acomponent of rat tears, glows bright pink or magenta under a blacklight as well. And urine isn't the only substance thatglows under a black light. Rat urine fluoresces yellowunder ultraviolet light. We may be able todetect some of them through touch, as a scent mark on a hard surfacemay attract a thin layer of dust and may feel rough to the touch, butthis is a far cry from the rat's awareness of his scentscape. We humans can barely perceive scent marks ourselves, because oncea scent mark dries it becomes invisible to us.

Urine marking of the environment may beserve as an index of spatial knowledge. Rats may urinemark their environment in order to maintain an optimum odor field, asort of olfactory landscape, which may help them maintain a sense offamiliarity with an area. Urinemarking may also serve as a habitat labeling system. It acts as a sexualattractant and advertisement to rats of the opposite sex.

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Urine is full of information about the rat whoproduced it: its species, sex, age, reproductive status, sexualavailability, social status, individual identity, and current stresslevel, as well as the age of the scent mark itself. Urine marking is a form of chemicalcommunication. Rats dot their environment with tiny drops of urine, called urinemarking, or scent marking. Home: Rat Sensory World: Rats under a black light