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Home » Dogs smell the world “in color.”

Dogs smell the world “in color.”

August 30, 2023 by

Humans can detect 1 trillion different smells with their 5 or 6 million olfactory receptors. Sounds impressive? Well dogs have up to 300 million receptors and the part of their brain devoted to odor analysis is 40 times bigger than ours! Now, that’s impressive!

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