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Science Behind the Termite Sniffer
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Termite Sensitive!From a single drop of urine, the termite sniffing dog learns the marking animal’s sex, diet, health, emotional state, and even whether it’s dominant or submissive, friend or foe. Termite tracking dogs follow a biochemical trail of dead skin cells, sweat, odor molecules, and gasses. For termite sniffing dogs, a scent article is like a three-dimensional “odor image” - much more detailed than a photograph is for a person.
Termite sniffing dogs can track a scent through snow, air, mud, water, and even ash. The properly trained and certified termite detection dog is recognized in court as a “scientific instrument” (US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals) . |
According to a reportprepared by the Institute for Biological Detection Systems (IBDS) of Auburn University ( Auburn , AL ), termite sniffing dogs
have the following capabilities:
Sensitivity:
Documented limits of olfactory detection for the dog range from tens of parts per billion to 500 parts per trillion.
Discrimination:
Dogs are extremely good at discriminating a target vapor from non-target vapors that are also present, even at relatively high concentrations of non-target odors.
Odor Signatures:
When being trained to detect a substance, dogs learn to alert to one or two of its most abundant vapor compounds.
Multiple Odor Discriminations:
Dogs can easily learn as many as ten odor discriminations.











