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SUBMITTER: Balint A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7048925 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bálint Anna A Andics Attila A Gácsi Márta M Gábor Anna A Czeibert Kálmán K Luce Chelsey M CM Miklósi Ádám Á Kröger Ronald H H RHH
Scientific reports 20200228 1
The dog rhinarium (naked and often moist skin on the nose-tip) is prominent and richly innervated, suggesting a sensory function. Compared to nose-tips of herbivorous artio- and perissodactyla, carnivoran rhinaria are considerably colder. We hypothesized that this coldness makes the dog rhinarium particularly sensitive to radiating heat. We trained three dogs to distinguish between two distant objects based on radiating heat; the neutral object was about ambient temperature, the warm object was ...[more]