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Scent Trailing by Tracking Dogs. What is the Physiological Basis for Concentration Coding ?

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The olfactory organs of mammals have several outstanding properties. Some of these are well known to us. Police dogs are able to sniff out drugs, and avalanche dogs rescue unfortunate skiers trapped under snow. In these acts the dogs demonstrate their ability to detect small quantities of odorants and discriminate different smells.

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  1. Department of Biology, University of Oslo, P.O.Box 1051, 0316, Oslo 3, Norway

    Kjell B. Døving

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  1. Physiologisches Institut, Universität Göttingen, Humboldtallee 23, 3400, Göttingen, Germany

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Døving, K.B. (1990). Scent Trailing by Tracking Dogs. What is the Physiological Basis for Concentration Coding ?. In: Schild, D. (eds) Chemosensory Information Processing. NATO ASI Series, vol 39. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75127-1_18

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