They will also overmark other males, although less quickly and less often.

I suspect the judges might overmark a tad tonight as they play to the crowd.

Caterpillars that find food may overmark the exploratory trails they follow back to the tent, creating recruitment trails.

In 1970 he was appointed Deputy Managing director of Overmark Smith Warden.

Studies on other animals that also mark with urine suggest that it's risky for a submissive individual to even fake an overmark by standing on tiptoe while peeing or just lifting a leg with nothing coming out.

Hall agreed with the hypothesis of the committee chairman, Graham Stuart, that once teachers knew "all they had to do was find two more marks and magically a D would become a C" there was a temptation to overmark.

"Although both sexes countermark, they do it a little differently: Males are more likely to overmark than females, and high-status males exposed to a place like a dog park are the energizer bunnies of marking," Lisberg said.

The results of field tests support another of Gosling's predictions, that residents will tend to overmark any mark deposited by a strange animal inside their territory. Thus, in the alpine marmot, cheek rubbing can play a role in territorial defence.