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In the Name of Allah,
The All-Merciful and Most Merciful

Dogs and people do not have the same per-
ception of smell. For example, a dog’s nose is so sensitive that
it can detect scents left by other dogs as well as people, gather
information from them, and detect the slightest scents in the air
without any difficulty. Some types of dog have a sense of smell
that is a million times more sensitive than a human being’s, a
characteristic that enables them to do things that people and

even sophisticated electronic devices cannot manage, such as
finding rugs, missing persons, explosive materials, wild ani-
mals, criminals, accident and disaster victims.
For example, blood hounds can follow a four day-old scent
and the traces of a person for more than 80 kilometers (50
miles). Amazingly, they never lose the scent in spite of the
countless other scents on the ground. In experiments, a trained
dog could find an item from among several things that had
been sprayed with the scent of a skunk. The Schlieren photog-

raphy technique has revealed that dogs breathe differently.
When a dog breathes, the air goes in through side
openings toward the back. Because of this

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