A Surprisingly Relatable Problem Makes Scent-Detection Dogs Worse at Their Job

Recent research shows how scent detection canines do worse at their job when they haven’t eaten yet. Scientists in New ...

Hungry scent detection dogs more likely to 'cry wolf'

Dogs trained in scent detection may be better at sniffing out the right smell after breakfast, with new research finding hungry dogs working for treats are more likely to falsely identify the wrong ...
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Hungry dogs are more likely to sniff out the wrong scent

Hungry dogs made more false alarms, while breakfast helped them reject wrong smells without reducing target detection ...
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Hungry dogs more likely to raise false alarms during detection work, finds new study

The study was jointly led by researchers from the University of Waikato in New Zealand and Adelaide University in Australia.
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New breakthrough could improve the skills of detection dogs who sniff out everything from drugs to diseases: 'Really important'

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dogs' sniffing skills may soon get a boost, thanks to a groundbreaking discovery by animal behavior experts in the United Kingdom.
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How Dogs Have Been Trained to Detect Cancer, Seizures, and Low Blood Sugar

Dogs rely on scent in ways that still surprise researchers. They have up to 300 million olfactory receptors, compared to about 6 million in humans, and can detect smells 10,000 to 100,000 times more ...