Summary
A dog's world is built of smells we can't imagine. Deep Look shows how a dog's nose splits air into two streams — one for breathing, one for smelling — and gathers a flood of information with every sniff.
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Discussion questions
Talk about it
A dog's nose is a super-sensor. It separates smelling from breathing and packs in millions of scent detectors, so a single sniff tells the dog a whole story.
- How is a dog's sense of smell different from a human's?
- What kinds of information can a dog get from one sniff?
- Why do people train dogs to use their noses for jobs?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: scent, sensor, information, sniff.
Try it: List three things a dog might 'read' by smell that you would miss. Write why smell is a dog's most powerful sense.