Scientists Use Calvin Klein Cologne to Lure Big Cats 63
Biologists can't speak on the effectiveness of Calvin Klein Obsession for Men on the cougars at your local bar, but they do know that jaguars love it. Rony Garcia and Jose Moreira from the Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) Jaguar Conservation Program use the cologne to attract jaguars in the jungles of Guatemala. "The method we are using to study the jaguars here in Guatemala is a non-invasive method which is based on photographing the individuals by using camera traps," Moreira says. "It has been very useful using Obsession (for Men) to get the jaguars in front of these camera traps ... and that allows us to estimate with greater confidence the genders and the numbers that live in each studied site."
Unsurprisingly (Score:2)
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I hear Cougars also like Calvin Klein.
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I don't care who they like, as long as they stay away from me!
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I have been training Mynah birds to say "Heeere, Kitty, Kitty..."
We plan to release them in major urban centers, worldwide.
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You know you have failed when you "make" a joke that's in the summary.
Re:Unsurprisingly (Score:4, Funny)
I can't be bothered to read the summary, This is slashdot, which means I already heard the story yesterday anyway.
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Sex Panther (Score:5, Funny)
60% of the time, it works EVERY time...
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Ah, I love Anchorman:
Brian Fantana: [about Veronica] I'll give this little cookie an hour before we're doing the no-pants dance. Time to musk up.
[opens cologne cabinet]
Ron Burgundy: Wow. Never ceases to amaze me. What cologne you gonna go with? London Gentleman, or wait. No, no, no. Hold on. Blackbeard's Delight.
Brian Fantana: No, she gets a special cologne... It's called Sex Panther by Odeon. It's illegal in nine countries... Yep, it's made with bits of real panther, so you know it's good.
Ron Burgundy: It'
Sixty percent of the time, it works every time. (Score:2)
But be careful, it's highly flammable.
too much (Score:1)
Finally! A way to bump off those jackass who you can smell from a block away without getting caught.
Yup, cougars like perfume (Score:1, Funny)
Yup, cougars like perfume...what else is new... they also like diamonds, fast cars, and rich guys.
Oh, I guess I should RTFA.
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Yup, cougars like perfume...what else is new... they also like diamonds, fast cars, and rich guys. Oh, I guess I should RTFA.
Forget RTFA, please for the love of God at least RTFS (summary) OR RTFD (discussion) [slashdot.org] where the cougar joke was already made, and its redundancy was already commented upon.
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Cat got your number? (Score:5, Funny)
I foresee this being used in a highly successful ad campaign - until a half dozen male hikers disappear in Central America and some very fat jaguars, wearing tight-fitting jeans, are spotted in the vicinity.
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The tight fitting jeans don't bother me nearly so much as the leopard print.
Biologists (Score:2)
They do some pretty weird things some times.
'Big Cats' eh? (Score:1, Redundant)
Genders, eh? (Score:2)
"It has been very useful using Obsession (for Men) to get the jaguars in front of these camera traps ... and that allows us to estimate with greater confidence the genders and the numbers that live in each studied site."
So... which gender seemed to like the cologne better?
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"It has been very useful using Obsession (for Men) to get the jaguars in front of these camera traps ... and that allows us to estimate with greater confidence the genders and the numbers that live in each studied site."
So... which gender seemed to like the cologne better?
Perhaps it's not so much that the cats like the scent, but that they recognise that their prey would like the scent so they go there to wait for the prey to come along.
Could also have similarity to the sweet stench of carrion.
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It's probably not being associated with prey since it probably hasn't ever actually led them to prey.
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Good thing they’re just filming the cats, not hunting them... or curiosity killed the cat.
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When you're a jaguar, pretty much anything is prey. Any smell that you don't recognize is still probably something you can eat.
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Could also have similarity to the sweet stench of carrion.
"Try out Carrion For Men. It's what all Real Men wear when they're dying... to get laid."
Axe body spray even better! (Score:4, Interesting)
My sister helps run the conservators center (www.conservatorscenter.org) of North Carolina who house 40+ lions and tigers. By accident the found out how effective it is when one of their volunteers wore it. The lions were moaning trying to rub against them through the cages. Unfortunately Axe body spray didn't think it was a good marketing item as their reply to me was "We thank you for your interest but we don't accept marketing ideas from the public".
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Unfortunately Axe body spray didn't think it was a good marketing item as their reply to me was "We thank you for your interest but we don't accept marketing ideas from the public".
That's kind of odd, considering that's exactly the kind of ad they go for. That rejection notice was probably just cover for when they "think up" that exact same idea a year from now and use it.
How about one to lure female humans? (Score:1)
Advertisement would have us believe that some scents will lure the women out of hiding the way this cologne lure those Jaguars, if only...
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Salesman, barely able to keep a straight face: "Yes sir, if you don't mind really big ones."
Sorry, but it had to be said.
Zoos have been using Obsession for ages (Score:4, Informative)
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It's apparently common to use fragrance (either sprayed perfume or scented magazine inserts) for "enrichment" of zoo animals so they don't get bored. A zookeeper maybe spritzes a log in the course of cleaning the tiger enclosure, and when the tigers come back in, they go nuts over this new smell, sniffing it repeatedly, rubbing against it, clawing at it etc.. I recall hearing that tigers go especially mental over Obsession and Charlie (probably all the musk).
You mean trying to obliterate the smell by rubbing their own scent producing glands in their paws and cheeks on it? I don't think that means that they like the smell, or are "going mental" over it. It means that they don't like having that smell in their cage.
Civet cat's ass glands (Score:3, Informative)
This works because many perfumes/colognes use the secretions from a Civet cat's [wikipedia.org] ass glands as a fragrance or stabilizer. Any many that don't, use a very similar synthetic compound.
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It never ceases to amaze me how much people are willing to pay for what is literally shit [wikipedia.org] to be applied to their body.
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Or paying to drink shit for that matter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civet_coffee [wikipedia.org]
Expensive solution (Score:1)
$40 - $68 for 100 mL.....there must be a cheaper solution o_o
http://www.google.com/products?q=calvin%20klein%20obsession&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wf [google.com]
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Well, ink from HP color inkjet catridges was also found to work, but they went with the cheaper solution...
Works for cougars, too (Score:2, Redundant)
Altho you don't really want to see those photos.
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well, you do want to show them photos off if you bag yourself a really nice one
According to SNL it even works for dogs (Score:2)
http://www.hulu.com/watch/2329/saturday-night-live-canis [hulu.com]
Bad News For Jaguars (Score:1)
Err...doesn't this also help people who want to go and hunt and kill jaguars..?
I think it might have been wiser to keep this quiet to protect them. =(
Austin Powers (Score:1)
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Perhaps it contains animal glandular material? (Score:1)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musk [wikipedia.org]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civet [wikipedia.org]
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2306/does-civet-come-from-tortured-cats [straightdope.com]
So this just goes to show... (Score:2)
That's my perfume ! (Score:1)