Sentences with phrase «of scent tracking»

Preston's claims have been thoroughly discredited by experts in the field of scent tracking, media reports (including an expose on the tv show 20/20), multiple state supreme courts (including the Arizona Supreme Court, which called him a «charlatan»), police training manuals, and law review articles.

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The prairie in December is brutal and indifferent, but that sated Christmas I was sixteen — with presents back home spilling off the sofa, the annual racecar - track looped in a figure - 8 beneath the tree, too many new books and boxes of candy, the mothball odor of the Christmas linen and the cloying scent of the juniper branches — I perceived, in some confused adolescent's way, the spirit's harrowing side.
As Rome's Olympic stadium resounded through the nine hot days and thunderous nights of the World Track and Field Championships, it came to seem a small planet unto itself, glowing in the pine - scented air over the Tiber like a javelin - proof bubble.
Instead we «track» players for years on end before pulling the trigger, while other teams sniff the scent, step in and often land such players ahead of us.
That story is of course already familiar to many, including those from well beyond Tyneside: the «Entertainers» tag, new signings Les Ferdinand and David Ginola combining with existing talent to play scintillating football, the 12 - point lead in early January, the 4 — 3 defeat at Anfield still regularly hailed (rightly or wrongly) as the best game the Premier League has ever seen, Kevin Keegan's «I will love it if we beat them» rant, a Cantona - and - Schmeichel - powered Man United scenting blood and recording a relentless series of 1 — 0 wins (including one at St James» Park in which we battered them senseless) to claim the title with all the remorselessness of a lion tracking down a wounded gazelle.
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Sniffing sewage, Sable tracks the scent to where it originates upstream, obviating the need for additional rounds of lab testing downstream.
Their mere presence — perhaps their scent on the wind and tracks in the dirt — creates a perpetual state of apprehension in their prey.
THE STUDY «Mechanisms of Scent - Tracking in Humans» by Jess Porter et al., published in the January 2007 issue of Nature Neuroscience.
He has also been working with neonate pine snakes in a variety of behavioral experiments, including simple maze tests to track migration and dispersal responses to different snakes» scents.
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.
Now scientists at Pasteur Institute and the University of Marseille, both in France, and at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have developed an algorithm that effectively mimics the zigzagging and veering of moths by sending entities trying to track a scent on paths that maximize information gain.
They first estimated the changes in concentrations of flower scents as a result of air turbulence and chemical interactions using a computer simulation, which allowed them to track the concentration and movement of multiple plumes of scents from different flower beds over time.
The dog had to learn not to jump out of the boat when it tracked the scent.
In a bad sitcom, everybody dies, as the laugh track gets louder and louder, and Hank, though it isn't a horror, has that loud laugh track and the slight, familiar scent of death.
An arthritic bird dog tracking the scent of women, Michael Douglas is a jewel of denial — predatory, delusional, wolfish, unforgettable.
Motivation is also important in order to keep the dog focused on its task, as tracking a particular scent for prolonged period of time may cause the dog to be fatigued.
Bavarian mountain hounds are German bloodhounds, capable of tracking a cold scent for hours, even days.
While tracking the scent of a rabbit in tall grass, with their short legs and head dropped down, the only part of a beagle that can be seen is its tail.
Sue has competed in a variety of dog sports and activities with her dogs and has titled in obedience, conformation, agility, tracking and Nose Work, as well as competed in Scent Hurdle Racing.
They love being outside and getting lots of exercise but it's important to keep her on lead so she doesn't go running off on the track of a delectable scent.
Typically, your puppy's smell sense alerts him to the presence of prey, and he tracks game by following the scent trail.
Sighthounds like the Afghan Hound and Greyhound, and many of the terriers, trigger more to movement than scent and rely on sight to track prey.
«The purpose of a tracking test is to demonstrate the dog's ability to recognize and follow human scent, a skill that is useful in the service of mankind.
Learn all about a beagle's sense of smell and other interesting beagle facts, including their ability to track a scent.
There are two ways or types of training for a rescue dog — ground scenting or tracking and air scenting.
Careful to let them off leash outside of a fenced in area, once they find a scent to track it can be very difficult to get them back at your side.
The physique of the dog makes him the perfect tracking dog — the nose with large, open nostrils helps him detect the scent; his large long ears help in sweeping the ground; and the shawl, the wrinkled flesh under the lips and neck, is used to catch the stray scent.
Also, a dog who has a natural talent for agility isn't necessarily smarter than another breed of dog who can scent - track or hunt.
Performance events help evaluate the abilities of the dog - depending upon the kind of event - its ability to use its nose to track a scent, to jump, to climb, to turn quickly, to swim, to run for long periods, to accept and respond to instruction, and more.
The canine sport of tracking involves training a dog to follow the human scent left in the tracklayer's footprints to locate articles containing the tracklayer's scent which have been dropped at certain locations on the track.
Their ability to distinguish a particular scent in an ocean of smells allows them to have jobs like sniffing out drugs, bomb residue, illness or even tracking down a missing person.
Training a dog to track consists of teaching them to persistently follow the track we want them to follow and not the track of a field mouse, rabbit, or another scent that catches their interest.
Betty Radzevich also has experience with her dogs tracking the scent of people and their personal items.
We will start with basic desert tracking, including identification of human scented objects along the trail.
It is thought that the friars of the Abbey of St. Hubert were responsible for crossing strains of older French breeds to create a low - built scenting hound that could plod over rough terrain while followed on foot by a human hunting partner tracking rabbit and deer.
If he's digging to track a scent or out of simple boredom, distract him and offer an alternative form of play instead.
Bullmastiffs can excel in agility, obedience, rally, even scent work and tracking, so training should begin immediately and be a part of the lifelong bond between dog and owner.
AKC Tracking is a canine sport that demonstrates a dog's natural ability to recognize and follow a scent, and is the foundation of canine search and rescue work.
Tracking work is notoriously popular among scent hounds such as blood hounds as a result of their incredible sense of smell.
A dog such as a bloodhound with such an incredible sense of smell is able to take a scent from a single artifact such as a piece of clothing and track a scent until it dissipates.
While sight hounds track prey by always keeping them in sight, scent hounds can simply follow their noses so it doesn't matter if they lose sight of their quarry.
If you're not a hunter, but you want your pet dog to participate in activities that put his or her tracking abilities to good use, you might get involved in Earth Dog trials where enthusiasts challenge their dogs to follow scents into tunnels to find the den of prey.
They can follow a trail of scent to a patch of vegetation like the legendary bloodhound, and their hearing is nearly as good, so they can halt in their tracks and seek cover if danger approaches in the form of padding feet.
Tracking work is not suited to all dogs and it is generally bloodhounds and other scent hounds that excel at this particular type of work.
The purpose of tracking is for the dog to follow a human scent trail and find the «missing person» at the end of the track.
They also need a lot of exercise, this dog can walk for hours; one Bloodhound tracked a scent more than 100 miles.
As part of the dog's behavioural enrichment program, scenting and tracking should be encouraged.
His intelligence, sense of threat discrimination and keen scent qualifies many Bouviers to excel in police work, tracking and drug detection.
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