Klicka på en bild för att gå till Google Book Search.
Laddar... Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell (urspr publ 2016; utgåvan 2016)av Alexandra Horowitz (Författare)
VerksinformationBeing a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell av Alexandra Horowitz (2016)
Ingen/inga Laddar...
Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. What a fascinating book. It delves into dogs and their noses and into the sense of smell for people and other animals. I believe that you will never look at a dog sniffing something the same after reading this book. There are facts in here about noses. They have so many more receptors than we do so they can smell so much more than we do but it also goes into the science of how we smell. The author actually starts working on testing her nose against her dogs and even improves her sense of smell. Just like anything, use it or lose it. I highly recommend this book for anyone that loves dogs and/or science. ( ) “I smell gin on the man who sits next to me in 10C. I smell the acrid, lingering piles of freshly turned, festering wood chips on the other side of the park. I see two people with a dog; then a second later smell that dog’s poo, which must’ve recently been deposited in a trash bin. I smell the art room at kindergarten before seeing it. I smell every book I open. I smell the clove antiseptic paste that screams dental office.” And so these Is go for 66,6% of the book. I thought this one will be about dogs though. The only excerpt of notice on dogs is about a new idea on how they measure the time of their owner's arrival. Still not enough for a book review I wanted to write for a magazine. After all who'd want to read about a person trying to live her dog's olfactory life? As I think others have noted, I wanted this book to be more about, well, being a dog. The parts about the anatomy behind canine olfactory abilities and working dogs were really interesting; I started skipping over the parts about human olfaction because I just didn't care enough. I am confirmed in my desire to find canine nosework classes for Basil. Also, in my chauvinism, I definitely wanted this book to say SOMETHING about Basset Hounds, for goodness' sake! (Though I think one of her implications throughout is that all of this is less determined by breed than is popularly assumed--i.e. ultimately, when presented with a scenting challenge, the difference between Basil and the pit bull mix down the street has more to do with motivation than innate ability.) inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Alexandra Horowitz, author of the bestseller Inside of a Dog, explores what dogs know in even greater depth, following their lead to learn about the dog's spectacular nose and how we mere humans can improve our underused sense of smell. Here Horowitz, a leading researcher in dog cognition, continues to unpack the mystery of a dog's nose-view, in order to more fully understand our companions. She follows the dog's nose--exploring not only its abilities but the incredible ways it is being put to use. Because human noses are so inconsiderable in comparison--we have but six million olfactory receptor cells while dogs have hundreds of millions--we have difficulty conceptualizing what dogs can perceive. To a dog, there is no such thing as "fresh air." Every breath is full of information. Dogs, when trained, can identify drugs of every type, underwater cadavers, cancer, illicit cell phones in prison, bedbugs, smuggled shark's fins, dry rot, land mines, termites, invasive knapweed, underground truffles, and dairy cows in estrus. But they also know about the upcoming weather, earthquakes before they happen, how "afternoon" smells, what you had for breakfast, and whether a cat touched your leg yesterday. And of course, they know the distinctive odor of each spot of sidewalk as they travel home. In fact, what every dog knows about the world comes mostly through his nose. But the mysteries of the nose are not restricted to the dog alone. For Horowitz also delves into the abilities of expert human sniffers--from perfumers to sommeliers to animal trackers who use smell to search out their quarry. She also trains her own nose, smelling the streets of New York City and using the experts' methods to hone the human ability we all have but rarely use to its full extent. By observing everything from her own dogs to working detection dogs and human sniffers, Horowitz takes us along on her quest to make sense of scents, combining a personal journey of smelling with a tour through the cutting-edge science behind the olfactory powers of the dog. Writing with scientific rigor and her trademark wit, Horowitz changes our perspective on dogs forever. Readers will feel that they have smelled into a fourth dimension, literally broken free of human constraints and understood smell as never before; that they have, however fleetingly, been a dog.--Adapted from dust jacket. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
Pågående diskussionerIngen/ingaPopulära omslag
Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)636.7Technology Agriculture & related technologies Animal husbandry DogsKlassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
Är det här du? |