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      CommentAuthorMonetdell
    • CommentTimeOct 13th 2006
     

    you know they say animals can smell fear,cancer and many emotions. is this true and if it is what would it smell like if we had senses that strong?

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      CommentAuthorJoshuaU490
    • CommentTimeOct 13th 2006
     

    Yes its true, many dogs have been taught to sniff out cancer. Heres a news story about it http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/06/60minutes/main665263.shtml
    Many large wild animals (like lions and wolves) have been hesitant when approaching humans that are not afraid of them and seem very responsive to human feelings and emotions. As for what fear or cancer smells like, how could anyone possibly know?

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      CommentAuthorHushed
    • CommentTimeOct 13th 2006
     

    Well firstly, we can start by saying that this is totally true.

    Next is the reason why its true, why most people choose not to believe. Nine-teen in every twenty males, and twenty-three out of every fourty-five females, have small scents of urine over there body, in various areas depending. This causes the animal to smell you, and this gives the animals a sense of danger, and they believe you are harmful to them. Thus causing them to attack, or run away. Usually you will either want to run, or stay, so they dont actually smell fear per say, but they smell the urnine, along with the mentality of being afraid, and the scent of adrenaline.

    So yes, they can smell adrenaline, as well as urine, and your mentality.

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      CommentAuthorUdoboy
    • CommentTimeOct 16th 2006
     

    My friend had a neighborhood dog who liked to bark at her. The dog decided to start barking at me. I just stood there and thought of everything that made me angry--starting with barking dogs. I got pretty angry. Eventually, the dog cringed and went away.

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      CommentAuthorMrFingers
    • CommentTimeOct 16th 2006 edited
     

    yeah I find that roaring at animals makes them fuck off. eye contact is especially important.

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    Dosnt eye contact "enrage" dogs? Ive read that dogs see direct eye-to-eye contact as a challange :shocked: Though when i was 6 or 7 a Rottweiler cornered me against a fence in a park, and it must have been able to smell my fear cause it didnt stop snarling untill its owner came and stoped it, about 5-10 min later...though it seemed like 20 :sad:

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      CommentAuthorMonetdell
    • CommentTimeOct 18th 2006
     

    heres something else i've been thinking,they say many many animals are phsycic. in fact almost all,could it be to get to the top of all food chains that we had to give up something along the way? it would explain the unused part of the brain,maybe it is a bit like the bit u can cut out of the intestines and had a use before we evolved but not one now.
    this question is more mystical than scientific.

    • CommentAuthor5010
    • CommentTimeOct 18th 2006
     

    I remember reading about an aerosol that blocks the chemical markers that dogs recognize as fear. It is so powerful that over 90% of greyhounds wouldn't even chase a rabbit sprayed with it. It was found to be commercially useless due to side effects caused to the dogs as well as the propeensity to attract biting insects to any subject sprayed with it.

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      CommentAuthorElixer
    • CommentTimeOct 18th 2006
     
    Posted By: Phlogiston Verdigris

    Dosnt eye contact "enrage" dogs? Ive read that dogs see direct eye-to-eye contact as a challange:shocked:" alt=":shocked:" src="/extensions/Vanillacons/smilies/standard/shocked.gif">Though when i was 6 or 7 a Rottweiler cornered me against a fence in a park, and it must have been able to smell my fear cause it didnt stop snarling untill its owner came and stoped it, about 5-10 min later...though it seemed like 20:sad:" alt=":sad:" src="/extensions/Vanillacons/smilies/standard/sad.gif">

    usually the alpha animials are the ones that get enraged, the rest are usually passive

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      CommentAuthorMonetdell
    • CommentTimeOct 18th 2006
     

    wat about my 2nd qestion?

    • CommentAuthor5010
    • CommentTimeOct 19th 2006
     

    As for your second question, if you take your chemical id and concentrate it enough to be able to smell it with the human nose, the smell is similar to urine. Not every urine smells exactly the same, kinda like how you can smell the difference between steak and hamburger but they both smell like beef.

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      CommentAuthorMonetdell
    • CommentTimeOct 19th 2006
     

    i meant to say my 3rd but anywho

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