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504. Introducing “Off Leash”

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Smell Through Time, It's Like Seeing the Ghosts of Everything That Happened Here

In recent years, the conservation canine programm has also started doing detection work separate from animal scat. Julian and her partner, jasper, a big, jovial black lab, worked to find pc bs. That's a short hand for the harmful chemicals, polychlorinated by fenals. What we're learning is human, as we watch the dog detecting this window sill or this building or this paint is, while there sens te smell is way better. Many times we can actually smell pc p what does it smell like? It smells like sweet chlorine. Sometimes it is so strong that i feel like i'd get a headache. Most people don't even notice that it

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