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Secrets of the Snout: The Dog’s Incredible Nose Hardcover – April 13, 2018

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Dogs and humans have worked side by side for thousands of years, and over the millennia we’ve come to depend upon our pooches as hunters, protectors, and faithful companions. But when it comes to the extraordinary quality of man’s best friend which we rely on most, the winner is clear—by a nose. In Secrets of the Snout, Frank Rosell blends storytelling and science as he sniffs out the myriad ways in which dogs have been trained to employe their incredible olfactory skills, from sussing out cancer and narcotics to locating endangered and invasive species, as well as missing persons (and golf balls).

With 300 million receptors to our mere 5 million, a dog’s nose is estimated to be between 100,000 and 100 million times more sensitive than a human’s. No wonder, then, that our nasally inferior species has sought to unleash the prodigious power of canine shnozzes. Rosell here takes us for a walk with a pack of superhero sniffers including Tutta, a dog with a fine nose for fine wine; the pet-finder pooch AJ; search-and-rescue dog Barry; the hunting dog Balder; the police dogs Rasko and Trixxi; the warfare dog Lisa; the cancer detection dog Jack; Tucker, who scents floating killer whale feces; and even Elvis, who can smell when you’re ovulating. With each dog, Rosell turns his nose to the evolution of the unique olfactory systems involved, which odors dogs detect, and how they do it.

A celebration of how the canine sense for scents works—and works for us—
Secrets of the Snout will have dog lovers, trainers, and researchers alike all howling with delight. Exploring this most pointed of canine wonders, Rosell reveals the often surprising ways in which dogs are bettering our world, one nose at a time.
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“People seeking to employ sniffer dogs in their work will find this detailed science report extremely useful.” ― Booklist

“In this fascinating study, behavioural ecologist Frank Rosell guides us through compelling research on olfaction-related canine ethology, physiology and neuroscience.” ―
Nature

“A fascinating and encyclopedic look at dogs’ amazing scent abilities.” ―
The Bark

“As a beaver researcher, Frank Rosell had the inspired idea to use the dog nose to distinguish castoreum, the odorant beavers leave on their territories, and anal gland secretions. In this encyclopedic compendium, Rosell details all the things he then learned that the fantastic dog nose can find, from the spruce bark beetle to golf balls to cows in estrus. Any dog owner who has been, as I have, following their dog’s nose, will be fascinated at this long list of what the nose of the companion by our sides can do.” ―
Alexandra Horowitz, author of Being a Dog

“This is a wonderful book, well researched and up to date. An exhaustive work that will help everyone who uses dogs for their scenting capabilities, it will also appeal to pet owners who want to learn more about their dogs’ noses and what they can detect.” ―
Susan Bulanda, certified animal behavior consultant and SAR dog expert

About the Author

Marc Bekoff is professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has published more than thirty books, is a former Guggenheim Fellow, and was awarded the Exemplar Award from the Animal Behavior Society for long-term significant contributions to the field of animal behavior.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Chicago Press; 1st edition (April 13, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 022653636X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0226536361
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2018
    great accounting of the sense of smell in canines. This book is superb.
  • Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2018
    I bought this book because I was interested in dogs' ability to smell and while a lot of books mention how amazing it is, there aren't really any books that cover it in depth. I buy a lot of dog books and just stumbled upon this one and was surprised to find it didn't have any reviews yet, so I thought I'd write the first one. This book did a good job covering the wide array that dogs are used for finding things as well as what areas they are good in and what areas they lack in. The book also cited a TON of scientific research. If you have any interest in a dog's talent for smelling, you should buy this book. Yes, there are other animals on the planet that do it better, but there aren't any animals that compare with trainability for the amount of years you can get out of the dog as well as ease of living with them in the down time that the animal isn't working. This book is actually a translation, as Frank Rosell is Norwegian. I didn't know that when I bought it. In some ways I liked that because on like how Americancentric some books can get, I felt like Rosell had looked at research being done all over the globe and in other languages. I took off a star because the book reads a bit like a translation. It doesn't always flow and a lot of sentences seem to be standalone. I also took off a star because while I loved the amount of studies sited, at times it felt like the author was just trying to cite every study he came upon (in some paragraphs you read a ten sentence paragraph and every single one has a different citation) and would occasionally stick an extra one in that didn't really have any bearing just because he came across it. I also wish he had culled a bit of the studies he cited in favor of talking about some more in depth. Not every study is equal. Many studies have flaws that cause weird results, so it would have been nice to learn more about the study while reading instead of feeling like at the end of the book I'd need to read a bunch of these to figure out if all the studies chosen were good ones, or if some (or many) had serious flaws in how they were conducted. I have no way of knowing.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2019
    Secrets of the Snout
    The Dog’s Incredible Nose
    Frank Rosell
    c. 2014, English translation 2018

    If you were to make a list of all the ways a dog’s sense of smell is used to assist humans, you’d probably have a long list. Secrets of the Snout, written by Frank Rosell and translated into English in 2018, would have many more ways The Dog’s Incredible Nose is utilized by people.
    Introductory chapters discuss dogs at work and the science behind a dog’s sense of smell. Subsequent chapters are divided up into types of dog work: Pet Finder, Search and Rescue, On the Hunt, Police Work, Customs and Border Control, Military, Medical Detection, Field Assistant, Pest Detector and Building Inspector and Other Work Tasks for Sniffer Dogs. Chapters are further divided up into different jobs for dogs. For example, in the chapter on Police Work, Rosell discusses different types of police dogs, scent line-ups for criminal suspects, cadaver searches on land and water, trailing to find a suspect or lost person, specialized searches for blood, semen and teeth to find a crime scene and searches for flammable liquids (arson dog).
    Each type of training is introduced with a story of a search with an actual dog and handler. Then there is a description of that type of training and how successful the dogs have been. Even more important, every description of the type of dog work has been verified by studies. Each chapter has extensive notes on the research that was used to write the chapter. The chapters are 190 pages, while the notes are 60 pages. The notes are at the end of the book, so you can read the chapters for the information alone. But if you want to do more research on a topic you have the notes on where to get further information.
    Secrets of the Snout is a comprehensive book on how a dog’s sense of smell is utilized today, backed up by published studies. It can be read by those just interested in the many different ways dogs are used. If a person wants to train some aspect of “sniffer dogs”, this book is a place to start. The notes list who and where the work is being done. For those already training dogs, the studies let you know what is being done today, what worked, what didn’t and ideas for studies of their own.
  • Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2018
    Let me save you some trouble. Dogs have a sense of smell up to 10 million times more sensitive than people. They can be trained to exploit this advantage for human benefit in almost unimaginable ways, and this book sets out to list them in a plodding, encyclopedic way that is largely devoid of any sense of narrative and certainly any wittiness. You get a whiff of this from the laughably clumsy title. As soon as I started reading, it seemed as if the English was not the first language of the author. It was only then that I noticed it had been translated from Norwegian. Aside from the generally robotic tone, one recurrent irritant was phrases like “in 120 hours, or in other words, five days”. Maybe the author was trying to pad the word count, or thinks math has only been discovered in Norway! Three stars for the genuinely interesting information, but there are other books on the amazing abilities of dogs that are much better written.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars fantastic book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 21, 2022
    Great book that tells you everything you would ever like to no about a dogs nose and what it can do.
  • Glen
    4.0 out of 5 stars Informative and interesting
    Reviewed in Canada on December 16, 2018
    Interesting and informative but a bit technical for the non dog owner or lay person. As a biologist I thought it was great.