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Wednesday, February 15, 2023
What I Know
A dog could never tell you what she knows from the
Dogs devote lots of brain power to interpreting smells. They have more than 100 million sensory receptor sites in the nasal cavity compared to 6 million in people, and the area of the canine brain devoted to analyzing odors is about 40 times larger than the comparable part of the human brain.
Taking my dogs for walks, it is clear that the outing is all about the smells. They must look at us and just think that, regarding smells, we are dunces.
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From an online VCA animal hospital article:
Dogs devote lots of brain power to interpreting smells. They have more than 100 million sensory receptor sites in the nasal cavity compared to 6 million in people, and the area of the canine brain devoted to analyzing odors is about 40 times larger than the comparable part of the human brain.
https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/how-dogs-use-smell-to-perceive-the-world#:~:text=Dogs%20devote%20lots%20of%20brain,part%20of%20the%20human%20brain.
Taking my dogs for walks, it is clear that the outing is all about the smells. They must look at us and just think that, regarding smells, we are dunces.
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