#sense-of-smell

#sense-of-smell

Smell is the most underrated of all the senses; the least glamorous, the most neglected... it is also the sense most connected to memory and linked to emotions.

Since the early 2000s, Apopo's African giant pouched rats have been using their acute sense of smell to sniff out landmines and detect TB in sputum samples. Now, they look set to become search-and-rescue specialists too.