Smelling Definition
Smelling is using noses to get information about odors. For example, garbage smells bad.
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The Five Senses
Fun Facts
- Mice use smell to find food and watch out for danger.
- Snakes "smell" with their tongues.
- Many animals use noses to smell better than humans.
Why Do We Need To Know About Smelling
Learning about smell helps us understand how people and animals interact with their surroundings. This sense is important for many jobs. For example, wildlife biologists need to know about animals’ strong sense of smell to study their behavior and help keep them safe. This shows that smell is key in protecting wildlife.
In jobs like truffle farming, making perfumes, and checking food safety, smell is very important. Truffle farmers use pigs to find truffles because of their great sense of smell. People who make perfumes or flavors rely on their ability to smell to create products that people like. Understanding how smell affects taste helps those in food safety ensure food is good to eat. The sense of smell is widely useful.
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In this lesson, we learn that:
- Animals and plants gather information about the world through their senses.
- The five senses are seeing, hearing, tasting, touching and smelling.
- Senses help living things survive in their environment.
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