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1
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Why are smell/taste often described together

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Both chemoreceptors
Smell transmitted from back of throat (enhances taste of food)
Food has smell and taste

2
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What do the olfactory epithelium in nose and taste receptors on tongue detect

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Both chemoreceptors, detect chemical substances

3
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Why do dogs/cats have more developed sense of smell

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Help to find food
Sense danger
Seek out reproduction (smell pheromones)

4
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Vomeronasal organ

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Specialized for smells with social meaning or sexual interpretation (pheomones)
Transmits to limbic system (emotions)
In roof of mouth
Used for aggressive/reproductive behaviour

4
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Vomeronasal organ

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Specialized for smells with social meaning or sexual interpretation (pheomones)
Transmits to limbic system (emotions)
In roof of mouth
Used for aggressive/reproductive behav

4
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Vomeronasal organ

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Specialized for smells with social meaning or sexual interpretation (pheomones)
Transmits to limbic system (emotions)
In roof of mouth
Used for aggressive/reproductive behav

4
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Vomeronasal organ

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Specialized for smells with social meaning or sexual interpretation (pheomones)
Transmits to limbic system (emotions)
In roof of mouth
Used for aggressive/reproductive behav

5
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Flehmen response

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Lift upper lip and open mouth to enlarge vomeronasal ducts and chemical transfer

6
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Pheromones

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Chemicals that affect behaviour 
Come from glands 
Secreted into saliva, urine, feces
Can be secreted for marking (urine, A/G) 
Detected by vomeronasal/Flehmen response
7
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Not all cats respond to catnip

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Catnip can lose potency over time
50% of cats don’t respond
Age, sex, genetics, stress

8
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Catnip

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Member of the mint family

Releases happy pheromones

9
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Synthetic pheromones

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Reduce stress in cats
Feliway/adaptil
Reduce anxiety, help calm, seperation anxiety, spraying,scratching

10
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Feliway

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Pheromone produced when cat content/rubbing itself on things

11
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DAP/Adaptil

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Released from bitch 3-5 days after whelping to calm puppies

12
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Cats lack receptor for sweetness

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Cats may not eat if congested, loss of smell

Warming food may increase appetite