In many ways, smell is a strange sense. The very act of sniffing – pulling air and odor molecules into our noses – changes what remains behind in a way that sight and sound do not. Humans aren’t great sniffers, but dogs have an exquisite sense of smell, and in this video, Deep Look describes how and why that is. From special scent organs to their experimental protocols, dogs are well-adapted to reading the world by smell. (Image and video credit: Deep Look)

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