2024-05-10 08:46:39
Par Tristan Vey
Published on 05/07/2024 at 7:34 p.m., Updated 3 hours ago
Certain breeds are particularly renowned for the quality of their sense of smell… perhaps wrongly. Sandra – stock.adobe.com / smrm1977
Anatomical and genetic analyzes carried out on several dozen different breeds do not find any significant differences.
Unlike man or monkey, two “microsmate” species, the dog is “macrosmate”. In other words: he has an excellent “nose” – just like the horse, the rat, the pig, the elephant or even the cow (which we think about less often). This highly developed sense of smell undoubtedly played a role in its domestication 15,000 to 40,000 years ago (the exact date remains open). Combined with the barking, this probably allowed him to give early warning in the event of danger; and with his natural endurance, to follow a trail for hunting. He thus completed the man in an ideal way.
Certain breeds are particularly renowned for the quality of their sense of smell. We then speak of bloodhounds, first and foremost the Saint-Hubert dog, characterized by its imposing size, its drooping ears, and its sad look. Walt Disney was extensively inspired by it to create the characters of his animated films, most often…
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