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No Such Thing As A Fish

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**Humans can sniff chocolate better than dogs **

People from Northern latitudes may have a higher sensitivity to sugar due to the scarcity of sweet fruits and vegetables. This could affect their ability to detect and grow certain foods. Interestingly, tooth extraction is the most common operation in certain regions. Humans may actually outperform dogs in finding chocolate, as we are skilled at detecting sugar and fat.

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Speaker 3
No as in
Speaker 1
it can detect it can detect it more easily so this is really interesting there are particular variations in a sugar sensing gene and people from Northern latitudes have that more than people who live in tropical areas and the theory is one theory is that it's not certain obviously but in higher latitudes really sweet fruit and veg are a bit less common and they're necessary to survive it's not like in tropical regions where you have really sugary sweet things and it's easy to find them and survive so maybe if you move north you will benefit from having that sensitivity like if you like carrots and parsnips are quite sweet but if you can't if you can't detect that then you might not realize and you might not grow those foods or you might not seek them out and you'll be less likely to survive. So
Speaker 3
journey off from further north and the rest of us are disabled. Do you feel that that's true? Do
Speaker 2
you know that does it? Well I'm very wary of
Speaker 4
things that feel
Speaker 1
true but that does actually kind of feel true and whilst it's kind of touching in a way it's also horrendous that the number one operation performed in Schilden and Scotland is tooth extraction. Oh wow. I don't think you know
Speaker 3
like how dogs are good at detecting things we might clap to that later but everyone thinks that you know like dogs have got amazing smell compared to humans which they do but it's for certain chemicals and for certain chemicals humans are better and I think like for instance if you were to put a bar of chocolate in the middle of a field and train the humans to look for it and train the dog to look for it the human might come out on top. Wow wow. Because we're really good at looking for sugar and looking for fat and stuff like that. That's so cool. I don't know if that's true.

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