Scent Picture Flashcards
(11 cards)
Pertaining to scent picture, what helps dogs develop a “mental picture“?
The combination of scents it receives
What causes much of people‘s offensive body odor?
Apocrine sweat and bacteria interaction
How many different scent combinations are there in the human body?
6,227,020,800
Skin rafts are clusters of dead skin cells that are approximately how large in size?
14 microns or .014mm
The body’s heat creates a natural air current. What is the estimated speed of the air current?
125 ft./min. or 1.42 mph
What are reinforcing scents?
Man-made scents that reinforce or strengthen the elements of the individual scent
How is ecological or grounds scent produced?
When something or someone disturbs the ground and those things on the ground
What are the two factors that relate to ecological scents?
The release of vegetative fluids
Bacterial decomposition of plant cells and the soil
What is the lifecycle of skin rafts?
They produce an even amount of scent until 20 minutes.
The odor then increases and has a peak scent production at approximately one hour.
This level of scent production is maintained until approximately one and a half hours after the track was started.
The human scent production starts a slow decline until it begins to level off eight hours after the track was started
This level continues for approximately another eight hours
What is the lifecycle of human scent?
They produce an even amount of scent for up to 20 minutes
The peak in their scent production at approximately 8 hours and continue past 16 hours
Name two naturally occurring conditions that effect odor
Temperature and sunlight
