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[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Two other details that makes us perform comparatively worse than dogs, at this sort of task:

  • A lot of scentful substances are rather heavy molecules, so they tend to go near the ground, closer to the dog's nose but further from ours.
  • Humans have damn good vision. We simply gather more info from visual than olfactory clues, so we tend to undertrain the later.
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