The Science Behind The Nose -

The Science Behind The Nose...

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.

Bed bugs usually feed at night when people are asleep. Bed bugs feed mainly on the blood of humans. During the day, Bed bugs hide in tiny places. Bed bugs can be carried into hotels and homes by infested clothes, used furniture, suitcases, and by people. Bed bug eggs are white and about 200 eggs at the rate of 3 to 4 per day. Eggs have a sticky coating and stick to objects where they are laid. It usually takes the eggs 6 to 17 days to hatch, and the newly emerged nymphs will feed immediately. A bed bug goes through five molts (shedding of its skin) before it reaches maturity. Depending on environmental factors and the availability of food, there can be considerable variation in developmental rate. Bed bugs may live for several weeks to several months without feeding, depending on temperature.

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