Any scents dogs are more sensitive too?

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Or, has there been a study which maps out olfactory response based on compound?

I am searching in other tabs as I type this. This is in hopes I ping someone who has better on hand knowledge than myself.

Thanks in advance!

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Hey there,

You ever find any information on this? Obviously, a dogs smell is heightened and one might assume more acute to animal odors naturally (hunting). With training dogs can be taught to sniff out drugs and other items… but that doesn’t mean they are necessarily more sensitive to them.

I’m curious what this research is for?

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I think this is likely to be something that is very hard to determine experimentally, and it probably has not been done. Unlike with a human, you cannot ask a dog whether or not he smells something near the threshold of detectability, or if he detects any difference between one odorant and the next. There are probably some behavioral signs you might use, but they are not going to be at all sensitive to nuances of the sensation. Furthermore, even in the very early stages of olfactory processing in the brain, neural activity levels in the olfactory bulb do not map in any very straightforward (let alone well understood) relation to odorant strength.