What the dog smelled: The science and mystery of cadaver dogs

Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 08:31 in Psychology & Sociology

They can catch a whiff of human remains under 30 metres of water or buried in a mine shaft, and can tell the difference between, say, a dead raccoon and a dead hiker. And yet scientists still aren't 100 per cent sure how cadaver dogs manage to do this and the training community is still figuring out how to train them most effectively.

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