not only lovely, loyal, longheaded

but helpful are dogs, which is well known. I read in a news site that there are "cancer-sniffing dogs": they detected more than 90% of some cancers from human's breath in the experiment at Kyusyu University, Japan. It's convincing because they have far more acute sense of smell:)

But I wonder if dogs with a scrambled, short noise have as keen sense of smell as dogs with a long, wolf-like nose.


ガン探知犬のガン患者を見分ける確率は90％を優に超えたとか。彼らの鼻なら呼気から容易に分かるんだろうな。

そういえば、死期の近い人を見つける猫っていましたよね（死神、とかいうあだ名がついてたけれど、失礼な！）。犬ほどじゃなくても猫も人間より遥かに鼻がいいから、分かっちゃうんだろうなぁ。


photo w/CONTAX Aria + Carl Zeiss Planar 1.4/50mm + Kodacolor 400