Let us know the amazing facts of dog
- COMMON NAME: Dog
- SCIENTIFIC NAME: Canis lupus familiaris
- DIET: Carnivores
- AVERAGE LIFE SPAN: 10– 13 year’s
- Length: 27 inches
- weight: 142.7 kg
- The area of cells in the brain that detect different smells is around 40 times larger in dogs than humans. This means that your dog can pick up on way more smells than we ever could. This is why dogs are often used to sniff out people, drugs and even money.
- Dogs rely a lot on their sense of smell to find food, potential dangers, and friends, so needless to say they sniff a lot. Their noses are designed so smells can stay in their nose while air can move in and out of their lungs at the same time.
- So, not all dogs like water, but the ones that do tend to be pretty good swimmers.
- Some dog are fast and could even beat a cheetah.
- Most dogs could easily outrun a human, they’re built to run and chase.
- The fastest breed of dog by far, though, is the Greyhound. These speedy sight hounds can reach a top speed of 45mph within seconds of starting to run.
- The only place that dogs sweat like us is on their paws, so instead they pant to cool down.
- Where humans sweat watery liquid to cool down, dogs produce a pheromone laden oily substance that us humans can’t detect.
- You can find out whether your dog is left or right-pawed by giving them their favourite toy or interactive game and seeing which paw they use to help them first.
- Generally, dogs can hear much softer sounds than we can, so they can hear things that are much further away.
- dogs can hear much higher frequencies than us.
- They actually have around 18 muscles responsible for moving their ears.
- These help them to change the direction of their ears slightly to hear noises around them better, and play a really big part in telling us how our dogs are feeling.
- dogs can learn over 100 words and gestures, which puts their intelligence and understanding of us on a par with a two year old.
- Dogs have a sense of time.
- dog can genuinely get jealous when they see you display affection for another creature.
- Dogs have wet noses because it helps to absorb scent chemicals.
- Dogs can be trained to detect cancer and other diseases in humans. Cancerous cells release different metabolic waste products than healthy cells in the human body.
- Dogs may even be able to sniff out cancer cells simply through smelling a someone’s breath.
- It’s actually an age-old instinct to keep themselves warm and to protect vital organs while they sleep.
