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Re: Feathered Bloodhounds
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 dannj@alphalink.com.au wrote:
[...] The human sense of smell is quite a bit better than most people
realise, it's just that our reactions to scents tend to be on the
sub-conscious level. There have been several experiments that I know of,
one of which had human subjects follow a scent trail along the ground
blood-hound style (head down, backside up). Humans faired surprisingly
well at following even faint scent trails.
See, for instance,
http://digilander.libero.it/linguaggiodelcorpo/whoseph/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/love/senses.shtml
http://www.hhmi.org/senses/d230.html
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro99/web3/Bernstein.html
http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc98/3_14_98/fob1.htm
And esp this one
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/08/29_smell.shtml
Study shows humans have ability to track odors, much like bloodhounds
Which isn't to say our ability to detect smells is great, just better
than thought.
So to bring this around to dinos, what does this avian bloodhound study
imply for dinos?
[...]