Hello Everyone,
For argument’s sake let’s say you lost your nose in a tragic cheese grater accident. The entire fleshy part that protrudes from your face is now gone. Can you still smell? Are the smell receptors in the skull or were they in the “nose” part that’s now pencil shavings on the floor?
your olfactory receptors are mostly inside your skull at the base of the forebrain.
Okay, but without a proper sniffer can you smell?
Anticipating the next question: If your external ears are cut off, do you go deaf?
Next answer: No.
if you still have holes to inhale air through, then yes.
If you haven’t bathed in a month, I’d say you prolly smell awful.
You’d be a big hit with Harry Potter fans, Voldemort.
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Guilty
you won’t be able to hear as well, though; the pinnae of your ears are actual acoustic horns.
I was gonna say, “Horse shit doesn’t have a nose, and it smells awful.”
But I won’t.
Dogs and cats lack the protuberant nose of humans, and they have a far better sense of smell than we do, so that should answer that question. The great apes also lack the protuberant nose of humans.
The function of the fleshy part of the nose isn’t really related to smell at all. It’s to warm and humidify air before it reaches the respiratory system. Humans probably developed it when they moved into the dry savannas of East Africa from their former moist forest environment.
Barber (to squirming customer in chair): Will you please hold still? What would happen if I cut your ear off?
Customer: I wouldn’t be able to hear.
Barber: And what do you think would happen if I cut off both ears?
Customer: I couldn’t see.
Barber: What do you mean you couldn’t see?
Customer: My hat would fall over my eyes.
“My dog has no nose.”
“How does it smell?”
“Awful.”
Guilty as charged m’lud!