Ed Yong
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354 appearances
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 25 Sep
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And Alexandra's dog, Finn, did the same task, followed the string much more accurately, much more quickly.
He was doing it in fractions of a second in what took me many minutes and with no effort.
He does that for a couple of reasons.
So when a dog breathes in...
That air stream is cleaved into two by structures inside its skull.
So there's a large stream of air that goes down into the lungs and is for breathing.
And then there is another smaller stream that goes to a chamber in the back of the snout that is dedicated for smell and smell alone.
So there's this constant influx of scented air into the part of the dog's head that is responsible for processing smell.
That's not what happens in us.
The dog, it's just getting this constant conveyor belt of scented air going into its nose, whether it's on the inhale or the exhale.
And again, that means that its experience of smell is not this strobing, flickering thing that I am having to fight against.
It's constant.
continuous you know it i like to think of it as closer to our experience of vision right where we have even though we're blinking all the time we we don't you know our view of the world doesn't black out um it's it's smooth it's continuous and why do they love the smell of a human crutch what um
So I think that is also related to how dogs interact with each other.
So what happens when two dogs meet?
They sniff each other.
And they sniff each other usually in the groin.
They'll do that cool yin-yang thing where they're both sniffing each other's groins.
That's because all animals, to various degrees, are just leaking sacks of chemicals.
We are just like
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