Humans may be just as capable as dogs at following a scent trail
Humans may be just as capable as dogs at following a scent trail
www.nature.com Mechanisms of scent-tracking in humans - Nature Neuroscience
Whether mammalian scent-tracking is aided by inter-nostril comparisons is unknown. We assessed this in humans and found that (i) humans can scent-track, (ii) they improve with practice, (iii) the human nostrils sample spatially distinct regions separated by ∼3.5 cm and, critically, (iv) scent-tracki...
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I have a friend named Dave who wore so much patchouli that, if I went by his house within twenty minutes after he left, I could follow his trail through the open neighborhood and find him on scent alone.