What's more, we're not talking about just any giant rat, but an educated one with the rodent equivalent of a Ph.D. A Dutch company, Apopo, has trained these giant rats, which have poor sight but excellent noses, to detect landmines in Africa.
They tend to have a natural ability to quarter in the field, have excellent noses, and can be used to retrieve, given training.
Does something rather magical to blackhead-afflicted noses, and excellent on heavy eye makeup.
The American Avery Gilbert, a sensory psychologist trained in neuroscience, wrote an excellent book called What the Nose Knows in 2008; a fascinating social history of scent.
Far from viewing it as an excellent opportunity to bloody the nose of a club they refer to as Franchise FC, many AFC Wimbledon fans were appalled when news of the fixture broke.
Tony, 69, who died on Monday following a short illness, was an excellent journalist and had good nose for a story.
Figure 1C shows that the NA-NOSE also achieved excellent separation between HNC and LC states along PC1, using the same NA-NOSE based on five GNP sensors, in contrast to the chemical analysis of the constituent compounds.
After breakfast, I spent a good half-hour nosing around the excellent farm shop, stocking up on bottles of ale, but resisting the temptation to invest in a two-litre flagon.
In short, Mr. Abe has thumbed his nose at orthodoxy, with excellent results.
