Their olfactory brilliance makes them highly prized in drug raids, earthquake zones and police chases.
The second flight, a long one, took half a day (or, strictly speaking, all night), in my temporary abode stashed under my human's stockinged feet (those wretched olfactory stimuli).
Perhaps, in a world of olfactory fakery, this is one tip for the wise.
In particular, the role of perfume as an olfactory disguise is obvious.
But if you are a member and you start to reek, there is nobody to make you take a bath .Mr Van Rompuy's olfactory sense certainly failed him when he visited Budapest to celebrate Hungary's presidency on the day the media law was passed.
As with a natural olfactory system, electronic noses must be able to learn and later recognise new smells.
Labour's caricature of his astringent economic approach as "do nothing" is unfair but evocative; it has awakened an almost olfactory memory of Tory responses to past downturns.
Most astonishingly, the researchers found that olfactory receptors are also implicated, giving a whole, new twist to the idea that someone's political platform "smells" wrong.The word "inclining" is important.
An Israeli start-up company, BioExplorers, has harnessed the rodents' olfactory abilities to develop an explosive-detecting system that could have applications in the aviation industry.The New Scientist explains how the machine would work:Along one side of an archway [in a device similar to a full-body scanner], a detection unit contains three concealed cartridges, each of which houses eight mice.
Advertising hoardings might benefit from a little olfactory tweaking and cinema audiences could be reduced to floods of tears at the appropriate moment.
That, at least, is the conclusion of a sobering study just published in PLOS ONE, by Martha McClintock and Jayant Pinto of the University of Chicago.Dr McClintock and Dr Pinto were prompted to conduct their investigation because they knew olfactory problems can forewarn of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
