pIf you’re amazed by how much better your dog can hear that you, their sense of smell will really/p
pblow you away. /p
pDogs possess anywhere from 10,000 to 100,000-times as acute a sense of smell as humans/p
pThey have up to 300 million olfactory receptors in their noses, compared to about six million in/p
pour own./p
pMeanwhile, the part of their brain that actually processes those smells is actually 40-times larger/p
pthan ours./p
pDog-cognition researcher Alexandra Horowitz describes this as being able to recognize a teaspoon of sugar added to your morning coffee./p
pBut to a dog, that same teaspoon of sugar could be detected in one million gallons of water./p
p /p
pblow you away. /p
pDogs possess anywhere from 10,000 to 100,000-times as acute a sense of smell as humans/p
pThey have up to 300 million olfactory receptors in their noses, compared to about six million in/p
pour own./p
pMeanwhile, the part of their brain that actually processes those smells is actually 40-times larger/p
pthan ours./p
pDog-cognition researcher Alexandra Horowitz describes this as being able to recognize a teaspoon of sugar added to your morning coffee./p
pBut to a dog, that same teaspoon of sugar could be detected in one million gallons of water./p
p /p
