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Amazingly Sensitive!
- From a single drop of urine, the sniffing dog learns the
marking animal’s sex, diet, health, emotional state,
and even whether it’s dominant or submissive, friend
or foe.
- Tracking dogs follow a biochemical trail of dead skin
cells, sweat, odor molecules, and gasses.
- For dogs, a scent article is like a three-dimensional
“odor image” - much more detailed than a photograph
is for a person.
- Dogs can track a scent through snow, air, mud, water,
and even ash.
- The properly trained and certified detection dog is recognized
in court as a “scientific instrument” (US 9th
Circuit Court of Appeals)
- According to a report prepared by the Institute for Biological
Detection Systems (IBDS) of Auburn University (Auburn, AL),
dogs have the following capabilities:
- Sensitivity:
Documented limits of olfactory detection for the dog range
from tens of parts per billion to 500 parts per trillion.
- Discrimination:
Dogs are extremely good at discriminating a target vapor
from non-target vapors that are also present, even at relatively
high concentrations of non-target odors.
- Odor Signatures:
When being trained to detect a substance, dogs learn to
alert to one or two of its most abundant vapor compounds.
- Multiple Odor Discriminations:
Dogs can easily learn as many as ten odor discriminations.
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