Animal senses better than ours???
We all know dogs, lions and other Beast can hear/see/smell a 100 times better then we can but can animals taste better than we can?
Just randomly thought of this when i was reading the life of Pi.
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Jul 18, 2008. 3:46 PMi make shooting things (author)
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Post your comments. any thing thats relevant to the topic or the life of Pi.
Jul 18, 2008. 4:53 PMxACIDITYx
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...Yeah thats right i said 6 what are u gona do about it..
We only have 5 senses, as far as I was taught.
We only have 5 senses, as far as I was taught.
Jul 18, 2008. 11:22 PMGrey_Wolfe
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"It like I have a fifth sense or something." "You mean sixth sense." "No fifth sense. The sixth sense is smell, and you're lucky if you get that one." Random sitcom quote you just reminded me of, lol. Too bad I can't seem to remember which show it's from.
We have way more than 5 senses:
Taste, smell, hearing, sight, pain, cold, heat, pressure, time, thirst, hunger, balance and joint-position spring to mind, but there are more.
(Pain, cold, heat and pressure are usually lumped together as "touch", but they are actually different senses - Try step 5 and see.)
Taste, smell, hearing, sight, pain, cold, heat, pressure, time, thirst, hunger, balance and joint-position spring to mind, but there are more.
(Pain, cold, heat and pressure are usually lumped together as "touch", but they are actually different senses - Try step 5 and see.)
Oct 2, 2009. 6:30 PMRe-design
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It's still just the sense of touch. Maybe a refined sense but still just touch.
No, they are separate senses - under the microscope, the nerves even look different. Like I said, try step 5.
Jul 18, 2008. 6:14 PMi make shooting things (author)
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well i consider your sense of balance a sense im sure plenty of people would disagree but i for one count it as a sense.
Jul 18, 2008. 7:08 PMxACIDITYx
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But a sense of balance isn't a mutual sense, if that makes any sense. Balance is based off of feel and sight.
Jul 19, 2008. 6:14 AMxACIDITYx
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The importance of visual input for balance is illustrated by its being harder to stand on one foot with eyes closed than with eyes open.
What I'm saying is that no other senses contribute to eachother. For example, it's not like you can't have vision without smell. They are, essentially, Bases. Now equilibrioception is based off of many senses and things suck as the visual system and the vestibular system. Whereas nothing but the visual system plays into the sight sense, where the visual system is the sight sense and nothing else plays into the sight sense. That's why they are considered base senses.
I don't consider something that uses more than 1 sense to make it's sense a sense, and just a job or rather buddies to accomplish something.
If I am a person and I can only do one thing, call me a sense. Now If I pair up with someone else who can only do one thing, and we accomplish a sense of balance, you wouldn't call us only 1 person, we'd be 2 persons working together to make 1 job done, giving an illusion of a sense.
What I'm saying is that no other senses contribute to eachother. For example, it's not like you can't have vision without smell. They are, essentially, Bases. Now equilibrioception is based off of many senses and things suck as the visual system and the vestibular system. Whereas nothing but the visual system plays into the sight sense, where the visual system is the sight sense and nothing else plays into the sight sense. That's why they are considered base senses.
I don't consider something that uses more than 1 sense to make it's sense a sense, and just a job or rather buddies to accomplish something.
If I am a person and I can only do one thing, call me a sense. Now If I pair up with someone else who can only do one thing, and we accomplish a sense of balance, you wouldn't call us only 1 person, we'd be 2 persons working together to make 1 job done, giving an illusion of a sense.
Actually the sense of taste and smell are so linked that taste is almost absent without smell (remember the last time you had a sinus infection or totally clogged sinus'? Did food taste as good? Or was it rather bland?
Jul 21, 2008. 3:26 PMxACIDITYx
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Yeah, but you can still have a sense of taste without sense of smell. Not nearly as potent, but it's still there.
Yes, but it is very weak if the sense of smell is totally gone, but it is a one-way street, as the sense of smell doesn't need the sense of taste so much ;-)
As to whether animals taste better then humans.....I assume animals do, but I have never wanted to taste a human, soooooo I don't know for sure ;-)
Jul 19, 2008. 6:18 AMxACIDITYx
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Adding on to that,
The wiki article says...
Some animals have better equilibrioception than humans, for example a cat using its inner ear and tail) to walk on a thin fence.
It is using other senses to accomplish it's sense of balance.
Equilibrioception in many marine animals is done with an entirely different organ, the statocyst, which detects the position of tiny calcareous stones to determine which way is "up".
In this case, the marine animal is using it's sense of feeling to tell where the stones are.
The wiki article says...
Some animals have better equilibrioception than humans, for example a cat using its inner ear and tail) to walk on a thin fence.
It is using other senses to accomplish it's sense of balance.
Equilibrioception in many marine animals is done with an entirely different organ, the statocyst, which detects the position of tiny calcareous stones to determine which way is "up".
In this case, the marine animal is using it's sense of feeling to tell where the stones are.
Jul 18, 2008. 11:27 PMGrey_Wolfe
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Dude, look straight up, then close your eyes and keep your head like that, you'll quickly notice that you feel like you're falling backwards. They are related, even though closing your eyes isn't the same as being blind.
Jul 18, 2008. 7:52 PMxACIDITYx
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But you still have the sense of feeling. And you are still seeing. You think your eyelids are a perfect seal?
Sep 16, 2009. 4:20 PMa_traceur
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I wanna learn to "see" with my etes closed that'd be cool! (It is possible they did it in some lab)
Aug 19, 2008. 12:54 AMGrey_Wolfe
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Puns are the worst kind of humor. Anyone who uses them should be drawn and quoted.
There is a type of eye-less mole (it has a tentacle like nose) that tastes the fastest of any creature. In fact, it tastes faster than its brain can process (bandwidth, not just latency, for an analogy)
I know some people who smell worse than pigs, but I've never tasted one of them, so I can't be sure about that part!
my dog sometimes eats sheep poop when im walking her........ i know for a fact rabbits eat each others poop my friend gets headaches before it rains, maybe thats a 7th sense lol Is the book life of Pi good? my dad has it, would you recommend reading it?
Jul 20, 2008. 7:53 PMi make shooting things (author)
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yeah its good. if u go on any trips defiantly take it with you
Im going to the land of no internet next week (grandparents) so ill buy it in wh-smiths at the service station
Yes. Snakes are an example I can think of, but I know there are others.
Jul 18, 2008. 7:47 PMi make shooting things (author)
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snakes dont taste or smell with there tongue they use it to gather particles so there smell receptors can pick up smellseses. So there toungue is more like a vacuum then any thing elce
Jul 18, 2008. 11:29 PMGrey_Wolfe
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Animals tase much better than humans. We have horrible eating habits, and you ought to know what that does to the meat. Ewww. lol But seriously, many animals do have a better sense of taste than humans. Some don't, just depends.
Aug 18, 2008. 4:59 PMDr. Explosion
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Pigs have a better sense of taste than us, no seriously, they do!
Aug 19, 2008. 12:54 AMGrey_Wolfe
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lol. I realize that. I was actually saying that they tasted better when consumed. lol
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