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Track the chocolate

Posted by Robin on 25 January 2017 6 Comments

Scientists took a group of University of California at Berkeley undergraduates, showed them a video of canine scent-tracking, and then took them out on a lawn that had been laced with essential oil of chocolate. Scientists gave the students blindfolds, thick gloves, knee and elbow pads, and let them loose, off-lead. Could they track the chocolate using their noses, crawling on their hands and knees? Absolutely. The track they followed looked like the zigzag of a dog’s trail.

— Read more at Cadaver dogs and chocolate-sniffing students at The Irish Times.

Filed Under: perfume in the news
Tagged With: chocolate, olfaction

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  1. madtowngirl says:
    25 January 2017 at 8:28 am

    Interesting article, but really the only reason I clicked on the link was because I was hoping it would have a video clip of the students in action. Shucks.

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    • Robin says:
      25 January 2017 at 9:58 am

      Ha!

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  2. Undina says:
    25 January 2017 at 12:31 pm

    I find it curious that this is an extract from the published book What the Dog Knows by a person called Cat (don’t remember the last name – it’s there in the end of the article), which, in its turn, is citing a published study in Nature Neuroscience.

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    • springpansy says:
      25 January 2017 at 1:36 pm

      Yes, but I loved that the author of the book was named Cat, even though it’s completely irrelevant.

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  3. CobraRose says:
    25 January 2017 at 5:33 pm

    Better that than cadaver-sniffing students, I suppose.

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    • hajusuuri says:
      25 January 2017 at 7:22 pm

      LOL!

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