Humans have approximately 5-6 million smell receptors in their nose while domestic dogs have 100-200 million. Wolves would have even more than that!
Photo by Nancy McCurdy
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Powerful Noses!
Did you know that wolves have a Jacobson organ in their nose (a patch of sensory cells within the main nasal chamber that detects heavy moisture-borne odor particles. Airborne odors, in contrast, are detected by the olfactory sensory cells located in the main nasal chambers) and smell 100 times better than humans do!
Humans have approximately 5-6 million smell receptors in their nose while domestic dogs have 100-200 million. Wolves would have even more than that!
Photo by Nancy McCurdy
Humans have approximately 5-6 million smell receptors in their nose while domestic dogs have 100-200 million. Wolves would have even more than that!
Photo by Nancy McCurdy
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