Dr. Cliff Redford
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And they were doing... You just spoiled the ending, but go on.
It's an old book.
Give me a break.
They were doing... The mice were allowing people to do experiments on them, and therefore they were then monitoring what the people would figure out in the experiments, thus doing an experiment on us, on us humans, something like that.
What is the meaning of life?
We never quite figured that out, did we?
Some dogs learn like children at the beginning of the child's life, where it's just process of elimination regarding names for objects.
And then that's where it stops.
So this, yeah, dogs obviously smell a lot better than we do.
I've smelled some pretty rank dogs, Cliff.
But I'm pumped.
That was very good.
Thank you, David.
Thank you.
I'll be here all night.
Apparently dogs can detect odors more acutely than people to the factor of 10,000 to 100,000 times better.
Wow, and it's like sharks can smell a single drop of blood in like a hectare of the ocean, you know?
And the reason dogs can smell so well is, one, they have a lot more sense receptors in their nostrils, something like we have 3 million and they have 300 million, so, you know, 100 times more.
But also their brain...
is not set out so much for language and learning language like we just discussed in the previous segment, but they have larger sections of their brain that are dedicated to processing odors.