<P> As in most other canids, male bush dogs lift their hind legs when urinating . However, female bush dogs use a kind of handstand posture, which is less common in other canids . When male bush dogs urinate, they create a spray instead of a stream . </P> <P> Both male and female maned wolves use their urine to communicate, e.g. to mark their hunting paths, or the places where they have buried hunted prey . The urine has a very distinctive smell, which some people liken to hops or cannabis . The responsible substance is very likely a pyrazine, which occurs in both plants . (At the Rotterdam Zoo, this smell once set the police on a hunt for cannabis smokers .) </P> <P> Within the Felidae, male felids can urinate backwards by curving the tip of the glans penis backward . Urine marking by felids is also known as "spray - urinating" or "spray - marking". To identify their territories, male tigers mark trees by spraying urine and anal gland secretions, as well as marking trails with scat . Males show a grimacing face, called the Flehmen response, when identifying a female's reproductive condition by sniffing their urine markings . </P> <P> Lions use urine to mark their territories . They often scrape the ground while urinating, and the urine often flows in short spurts, instead of flowing continuously . They often urinate on vegetation, or on tree trunks at least one meter high . Male lions spray 1--20 jets of urine at an angle of 20--30 degrees upward, at a range of up to 4 meters behind them . </P>

Inability to control the excretion of urine or feces is termed