Sentences with phrase «of scent dogs»

Although there's not much hope for the routine use of scent dogs in cancer screening — they're too expensive, for one thing — the current findings suggest that other noninvasive screening measures could be developed to pick up the same scent.

Not exact matches

Dogs, in their job of being man's best friend, die young in human years, retire toa scent «filled place where well «fed pets attendand lick the sores of mangy Lazari.

William Allen White spoke for many Americans in the «30s when he warned: «The next war will see the same hurrah and the same bowwow of the big dogs to get the little dogs to go out and follow the blood scent and get their entrails tangled in the barbed wire.»

I mean, even every dog drools in Pavlonion delight over the mere scent of this wondrous fish.

Caputo, a Buffalo native and protege of GOP dirty trickster Roger Stone, is the guy who brought you garbage - scented campaign mailers to illustrate the degree of Albany's dysfunction, people in duck and / or chicken suits dogging Paladino opponents who won't debate and a flyer that depicted Andrew Cuomo washing off special interest «dirt» in the shower.

Many of the surprised dogs continued searching for the toy used to lay the scent trail — an indication that they had a mental representation of what they expected to find, the scientists report today in the Journal of Comparative Psychology.

The results might help explain why long - snouted dogs are better at scent work, such as sniffing out drugs, than short - snouted breeds, says Lisa Collins of the Royal Veterinary College in Hatfield, UK.

At the Centre de recherche en neurosciences de Lyon (CNRS / Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 / Inserm), researchers specializing in scents and their memorization have analyzed data, provided since 2003 by the Division of the Technical and Scientific Police (DTSP, Ecully) on dog performances in scent identification tasks.

During basic training, the German and Belgian shepherd police dogs must learn to make the link between two scents from the same individual through the completion of increasingly complex tasks.

By the end of this training, the dogs are able to carry out identification exercises during which they sniff a reference human scent and then compare it with five different human odors, one of which is the reference scent.

Humans even beat the indomitable dog for at least a handful of scents.

Cisko, one of the police dogs, during a scent detection test.

If the dog recognizes the reference scent it lies down in front of the relevant jar; if the dog does not find a match, then it does not stop or lie down.

The zigzagging patterns of a dog and a human hot on the trail of a delicious scent show remarkable similarity.

Freshly shaven wood has a distinct smell of childhood happiness, and whenever I get a whiff of that scent my brain immediately conjures up images of my grandfather at his working bench, the heat from the fireplace and the dog next to it.

The results showed that all five scents elicited a similar response in parts of the dogs» brains involved in detecting smells, the olfactory bulb and peduncle.

An interesting twist: The dogs in the experiment that had received training as service / therapy dogs showed greater caudate activation for the scent of a familiar human compared with the other dogs.

The caudate responses, however, were significantly stronger for the scents of familiar humans, followed by that of familiar dogs.

«Scent of the familiar: You may linger like perfume in your dog's brain.»

«Most of the dog owners and handlers involved in the experiment were women, so most of the familiar human scent donors were their husbands,» Berns says.

The dog with the strongest scent becomes the temporary leader of the pack until another dog picks up a stronger scent.

Here, the smell is retained in the maze of scent receptors even after the dog exhales; the odor is not expelled as it is with humans.

In a study published today in the Journal of Comparative Psychology, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the Department for General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience (Institute of Psychology) at Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, investigated this question and found evidence that dogs create a «mental representation» of the target when they track a scent trail.

In the test itself, each dog underwent four trials in which he or she followed a scent trail that was drawn with one of the two toys.

It also showed how that region of a dog's brain responds more strongly to the scents of familiar humans than to the scents of other humans, or even to those of familiar dogs.

Last June, after the dogs set up a den to give birth on the southern perimeter of the reserve, Jackson reinforced the boundary with five scent markers; three days later, the pooches had moved 18.5 miles (30 kilometers) to a more centrally located area, where they gave birth to their first litters.

The researchers have flown more than 500 scent marks to Tuli over the last year, and the dogs appear to be staying within the bounds of the fenceless reserve.

The dog had to learn not to jump out of the boat when it tracked the scent.

«Our motivation for this study came from information local law enforcement agencies gave us about using scent - detection dogs to help them find living and deceased victims after mass disasters like earthquakes,» explained Prue Armstrong, lead author of the study from the University of Technology Sydney.

The BioBoundary project has the pungent task of studying wild dog urine to identify the scents that demarcate territory and send a «no trespassing» message.

«We hope our findings give rescue teams the information they need about the optimal time frame in which to deploy human scent dogs versus human remains detection dogs to best ensure the recovery of victims following a mass disaster.»

One way to improve the efficiency of scent detection dogs is to recognize the change in the odor of a recently deceased victim.

Each nostril is smaller than the distance between the two, which means that they inhale air from two distinct regions of space, allowing the dog to decipher the direction of a scent.

Even if humans could gather this information, our brains wouldn't know what to do with it: the dog olfactory cortex, which processes scent information, takes up 12.5 per cent of their total brain mass, while ours accounts for less than 1 per cent.

This was shown when police tracker dogs were given a scent trail that seemed to run in the opposite direction to a set of footprints on the ground; they invariably followed their noses and ignored the contradictory visual cues (Applied Animal Behaviour Science, vol 84, p 297).

A team led by Wits post-graduate student Ashadee Kay - Miller investigated this question by training a team of dogs, and meerkats — from the Monte Casino Bird Gardens — to scent - match and test if they could detect the scent of puff adders.

The groundbreaking nanotechnology - inspired sensor, devised by Prof. Fernando Patolsky of Tel Aviv University's School of Chemistry and Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and developed by the Herzliya company Tracense, picks up the scent of explosives molecules better than a detection dog's nose.

Where we might smell a soup, a dog could pick out the scent of chicken and the noodle wheat and the individual seasonings.

Dogs» noses are said to be 1,000 times more sensitive than ours, and pooches can be trained to respond to the signature scents of human health conditions.

An arthritic bird dog tracking the scent of women, Michael Douglas is a jewel of denial — predatory, delusional, wolfish, unforgettable.

He picks up the scent and causes no end of trouble for the Averys, although of course the dog isn't talking.

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My cat slept most of the way, but my dog enjoyed looking out the window and smelling new scents.

This team is a group of geniuses — a retired FBI agent, a former SEAL... a human scent evidence dog.

It curls around the western shore of a small lake just outside Algonquin Bay, Ontario, providing a pine - scented refuge for affluent families with young children, yuppies fond of canoes and kayaks, and an artful population of chipmunks chased by galumphing dogs.

They run the gamut from mixed breeds to dachshunds to an FBI - trained human scent evidence dog — Hero the bloodhound — who's an integral part of my current Forensic Instincts team.

there are probably more that 10K people in the world who want dog poop scented perfume so there has to be a way to sell more than 10K copies of a really snappy comic book.

Dogs also have additional olfactory receivers positioned just above the roof of their mouth and behind the upper incisors, giving them an extra hand in picking up scents.

Dogs involved in the Conservation Canines program are not landbound but go out to sea as well, leading scientists to orca whales by detecting the scent of their scat while on board a boat.

Leave a piece of clothing or some other belonging that has your scent on it with your dog before you head out.