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The Dog’s Nose (3) by Dr. Resi Gerritsen and Ruud Haak Odorants According to Prof. Dr. J. Bodingbauer, we understand with smell ‘subjectively’ the ability, with the support of the nose used to sense smell, to pick up odor substances. The sense of smell counts, just like the sense of taste, to the chemical senses. […]
The Dog’s Nose (2) by Dr. Resi Gerritsen and Ruud Haak Internal Nose Separated by the nasal septum in the internal nose, there are left and right nasal cavities. The structure and the furnishing of the internal nose is by the so-called microsmatics (animals with a poor odor perception, like people, monkeys, chamois and birds) […]
The Dog’s Nose (1) by Dr. Resi Gerritsen and Ruud Haak Sense and Prickles Thanks to his ancestors, the wolves, the dog possesses a highly developed olfactory system. Indeed most predators find their prey by smell. They also recognize family and enemies by the track they have left, their droppings, etc., so their olfactory system […]
From: Dr. Resi Gerritsen and Ruud Haak: K9 Professional Tracking. Outdoor Temperature and Tracking. In my previous post “Physical Stresses of Tracking” I showed how the body of the dog reacts at not too difficult tracking tasks. We also know some interesting facts about outdoor temperatures that come to us via micro-meteorology. Research has given […]
Telomere Length Correlates with Life Span of Dog Breeds Author links open overlay panelLaura J.Fick1Gordon H.Fick2ZichenLi1EricCao1BoBao1DougHeffelfinger3Heidi G.Parker4Elaine A.Ostrander4KarlRiabowol1 Show more https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2012.11.021Get rights and content Under a Creative Commons license open access Summary Telomeric DNA repeats are lost as normal somatic cells replicate. When telomeresreach a critically short length, a DNA damage signal is initiated, inducing cell senescence. Some studies […]