An entertaining video from the everyday chemistry YouTube channel Reactions on smells and your dog – both going and coming. It looks at how the dog’s remarkable sense of smell works – even to sniff out cancer – and the chemistry of where that wet dog smell comes from.
Originally published by Cosmos as Why dogs stink when they’re wet
Bill Condie
Bill Condie is a science journalist based in Adelaide, Australia.
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