{"id":63,"date":"2009-12-07T18:43:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T05:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=63"},"modified":"2009-12-07T18:43:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T05:43:07","slug":"for-animal-lovers-did-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"For animal lovers! &#8211; Did you know?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(This is helpful for Year13 Biology &#8211; Animal Behaviour)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Domestic dogs can determine the age, gender, sexual activity, and exact identity of another dog simply by sniffing the scent marks it leaves behind.<\/li>\n<li>Rats can smell a cat. The mere whiff of cat odour causes a rat&#8217;s blood pressure to rise dramatically, even if it has never encountered a cat before in its life.<\/li>\n<li>Birds recognize each other by smell just as mammals do.<\/li>\n<li>Nesting birds change the way they smell so that predators cannot sniff them out. Usually ground-nesting birds and ducks coat their feathers using a substance known as a preen wax, which repels water and inhibits the growth of feather-degrading bacteria.<\/li>\n<li>Rats smell in stereo. With just one sniff, the rodents can workout the direction a smell is coming from. That is because the waft of an odour reaches each nostril 50milliseconds apart, a tiny but significant different that allows the rat to workout from and where the smell is emanating. When one nostril is blocked, a rat&#8217;s ability to sniff out the direction of a smell is\u00a0greatly\u00a0reduced.<\/li>\n<li>Wasps and bees have such good noses that they are being used to quality-check the freshness of supermarket food. They are also being trained to sniff out the chemical ingredients of bombs or the odours\u00a0produced\u00a0by people with certain diseases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From &#8216;Moths that drink elephants tears &#8211; And other zoological curiosities&#8221; by Matt Walker. Matt Walker is a writer and senior editor with New Scientist, the world&#8217;s leading weekly science and technology\u00a0magazine.<\/p>\n<p>There are lots of interesting books at libraries. Make sure you read heaps and build answers to your questions! <img src=\"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/wp-content\/plugins\/classic-smilies\/img\/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This is helpful for Year13 Biology &#8211; Animal Behaviour) Domestic dogs can determine the age, gender, sexual activity, and exact identity of another dog simply by sniffing the scent marks it leaves behind. Rats can smell a cat. The mere whiff of cat odour causes a rat&#8217;s blood pressure to rise dramatically, even if it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=63\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;For animal lovers! &#8211; Did you know?!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1509,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"For animal lovers! - Did you know?! - science4all","description":"(This is helpful for Year13 Biology - Animal Behaviour) Domestic dogs can determine the age, gender, sexual activity, and exact identity of another dog simply b"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[6328,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year-6-8-science","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}