Sentence examples for detect scent from inspiring English sources

They can detect scent coming from as far away as seven miles cross-country, and from twenty-five feet underground.

Unlike visual detection, which is a function of structural cover, detection via olfaction is generally a function of weather conditions (i.e., temperature, moisture, and wind), which can facilitate scent production or enhance a predator's capacity to detect scent (Gutzwiller 1990; Dritz 2010).

Nikki, a 4-year-old pit bull, was trained to detect scent changes in Leavitt's blood and provide warning signs up to two hours before seizures occur.

If a bear stands on its hind legs or moves closer, it may be trying to get a better view or detect scents in the air.

And one study of the canine snout found that it is able to detect scents at concentrations as low as five hundred parts per trillion.

The gene encodes an odor receptor that enables the insects to detect scents, so presumably the polygyne worker ants could smell a kindred queen.

Missbach et al. have now used a wide range of techniques to investigate how evolutionarily older wingless insect groups detect scents.

Skilled handlers confirm that their dogs have detected scents emanating from distant sources.

Dr. Bargmann switched things around so that odr-10 was expressed only in a neuron that detected scents repulsive to the worm.

The involatile protein darcin is most likely to be detected through the accessory olfactory subsystem which detects scents that are actively pumped to the vomeronasal organ on nasal contact with the scent source [ 58, 59].

I thought I could detect the scent of tulips, lisianthus and clove-scented stocks.