Dr. Nathanial Hall from the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University joins us to describe his research on
olfaction in
dogs and to answer questions like, which breeds of
dogs have the best noses and do
dogs really smell a million times more acutely than people?
In an interdisciplinary collaboration, the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine's Working
Dog Center (photo above courtesy of University of Pennsylvania), the School of Arts and Science's Department of Physics and Astronomy, Penn Medicine's Division of Gynecologic Oncology, and the Monell Chemical Senses Center have joined together for a research investigation using canine
olfaction, along with chemical and nanotechnology analysis, to detect early - stage human ovarian cancer.
While the front part of a
dog's nose is almost entirely committed to respiration, the rest is committed to olfaction — the sense of smell — and since there are hundreds of millions more olfactory receptors in a dog's nose compared to a human's nose, a dog is able to smell more and detect a scent in much smaller quantities: «This means two things: A dog definitely experiences smells, odors — volatile molecules — that we don't,» Alexandra Horowitz, assistant professor at Barnard College and author of Inside of a Dog, told Modern Farm
dog's nose is almost entirely committed to respiration, the rest is committed to
olfaction — the sense of smell — and since there are hundreds of millions more olfactory receptors in a
dog's nose compared to a human's nose, a dog is able to smell more and detect a scent in much smaller quantities: «This means two things: A dog definitely experiences smells, odors — volatile molecules — that we don't,» Alexandra Horowitz, assistant professor at Barnard College and author of Inside of a Dog, told Modern Farm
dog's nose compared to a human's nose, a
dog is able to smell more and detect a scent in much smaller quantities: «This means two things: A dog definitely experiences smells, odors — volatile molecules — that we don't,» Alexandra Horowitz, assistant professor at Barnard College and author of Inside of a Dog, told Modern Farm
dog is able to smell more and detect a scent in much smaller quantities: «This means two things: A
dog definitely experiences smells, odors — volatile molecules — that we don't,» Alexandra Horowitz, assistant professor at Barnard College and author of Inside of a Dog, told Modern Farm
dog definitely experiences smells, odors — volatile molecules — that we don't,» Alexandra Horowitz, assistant professor at Barnard College and author of Inside of a
Dog, told Modern Farm
Dog, told Modern Farmer.