{"id":138511,"date":"2024-12-23T16:37:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T20:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=138511"},"modified":"2024-12-31T16:42:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T20:42:26","slug":"amazing-sense-of-smell-in-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/amazing-sense-of-smell-in-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amazing Sense of Smell in Animals: What Humans Can&#8217;t Do"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What makes dogs&#8217; sense of smell so different from humans&#8217;? How do various animals use their sense of smell to navigate and survive?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em>An Immense World<\/em>, Ed Yong explores the fascinating ways animals perceive their environment through scent. From dogs detecting identical twins to elephants avoiding threats and seabirds mapping the ocean, the sense of smell in animals reveals capabilities far beyond human understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading to discover the surprising truth about how animal and human noses compare, and why we might be better sniffers than we think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-sense-of-smell-in-animals\">The Sense of Smell in Animals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Yong says that the sense of smell in animals allows them to do several things that humans can\u2019t do. They can detect prey, tell individual animals and humans apart, locate hidden objects, create mental \u201cmaps,\u201d and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, dogs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/perception-of-the-world\/\">perceive the world<\/a> primarily through their sense of smell, which is much more advanced than humans\u2019. Humans inhale and exhale a single flow of air for both smelling and breathing. In contrast, dogs\u2019 noses split the airflow into two parts\u2014one for breathing and one for smelling\u2014so when they exhale, the smells they\u2019ve inhaled stay inside their noses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because of their heightened sense of smell, dogs can tell identical twins apart by sniff, and can detect all kinds of things that humans can\u2019t, such as tumors, land mines, and missing people. Dogs can even \u201csee into\u201d the past through smell, by detecting who\u2019s been in a room, for example, or even what\u2019s happened there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yong also cites elephants as having a highly developed sense of smell. In experiments, they consistently run from clothes worn by the Maasai people, who will sometimes spear elephants, but show little concern when they smell washed clothing or garments worn by the Kamba people, who are not a threat to elephants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seabirds such as albatrosses and shearwaters can \u201cmap\u201d the vast, featureless ocean by using their sense of smell to detect where there are higher concentrations of dimethyl sulfide, or DMS. DMS is a gas released by plankton when it\u2019s eaten by krill, which is food for seabirds. DMS tells the birds which parts of the ocean contain plentiful food sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Comparing <strong>Animals\u2019<\/strong> Sense of Smell With Humans\u2019<\/strong><br><br>While animals can use their sense of smell to do many things humans can\u2019t\u2014and scientists have long believed that humans have an inferior sense of smell compared to many animals\u2014recent studies show that humans\u2019 sense of smell is superior to that of dogs and other animals, at least in some instances.<br><br>Studies show that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/you-actually-smell-better-dog-180963391\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">human nose is more sensitive than some animals\u2019 noses to odorants in bananas, flowers, blood, and urine<\/a>, for example. Some scientists have theorized that this is because humans are better at detecting smells that are important to us (while this hypothesis makes some sense when applied to blood, it\u2019s less clear when applied to the other aromas!).\u00a0\u00a0<br><br>One study shows that humans are capable of following a scent trail in the same way that dogs can. The study\u2019s human subjects got down on all fours wearing blindfolds and earmuffs, so as not to rely on their vision or hearing, and followed a string dipped in chocolate essence that researchers zigzagged across a field. While the humans weren\u2019t as good at this task as dogs, they nonetheless could do it, and they got better at it quickly after a few weeks of practice.<br><br>Scientists theorize that one reason humans can\u2019t use our sense of smell to perform as many tasks as animals is simply that we don\u2019t go around sniffing things all the time, as dogs do. In other words, behavior may play as big a role in scent as physiology (not to mention that humans rely more heavily on other senses, such as vision).<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes dogs&#8217; sense of smell so different from humans&#8217;? How do various animals use their sense of smell to navigate and survive? In An Immense World, Ed Yong explores the fascinating ways animals perceive their environment through scent. From dogs detecting identical twins to elephants avoiding threats and seabirds mapping the ocean, the sense of smell in animals reveals capabilities far beyond human understanding. 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