Do Dogs Smell Better Than Us?

The dogs amazing social cognitive skills, their ability to kind of solve puzzles using others is one of the things that makes them extraordinary. Imagine if each detail of our visual world were matched by a corresponding smell. Each pedal on a rose may be distinct, having been visited by insects leaving pollen footprints from far away flowers. A burst of chemicals marks where a leaf was torn. The flesh of the petals, plump with moisture compared to that of the leaf, holds a different odor besides. And time is in those details. While we can see one of the dog's petals drying and browning, the dog can smell this process of decay and aging. That might be the experience of a