Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell

Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell

A New York Times Bestseller
A Science Friday and Library Journal Best Science Book of the Year

Alexandra Horowitz, the author of the lively, highly informative New York Times bestselling blockbuster Inside of a Dog, explains how dogs perceive the world through their most spectacular organâ€”the noseâ€”and how we humans can put our under-used sense of smell to work in surprising ways.

To a dog, there is no such thing as â€œfresh air.â€ Every breath of air is loaded with information. In fact, what every dogâ€”the tracking dog, of course, but also the dog lying next to you, snoring, on the couchâ€”knows about the world comes mostly through his nose.

In Being a Dog, Alexandra Horowitz, a research scientist in the field of dog cognition and the author of the runaway bestseller Inside of a Dog, unpacks the mystery of a dogâ€™s worldview as has never been done before.

With her family dogs, Finnegan and Upton, leading the way, Horowitz sets off on a quest to make sense of scents, combining a personal journey of smelling with a tour through the cutting edge and improbable science behind the olfactory powers of the dog. From revealing the spectacular biology of the dog snout, to speaking to other cognitive researchers and smell experts across the country, to visiting detection-dog training centers and even attempting to smell-train her own nose, Horowitz covers the topic of nosesâ€”both canine and humanâ€”from surprising, novel, and always fascinating angles.

As we come to understand how complex the world around us appears to the canine nose, Horowitz changes our perspective on dogs forever. Readers will finish this book feeling that they have smelled into a fourth dimensionâ€”breaking free of human constraints and understanding smell as never before; that they have, however fleetingly, been a dog.
Country USA
Brand Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 44704330
ReleaseDate 2016-10-04
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781476795997

Country	USA
Brand	Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	44704330
ReleaseDate	2016-10-04
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781476795997

Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell

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