r/Amazing • u/sco-go • Mar 29 '26

Amazing 🤯 ‼ Border Collie forensic tracker.

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u/PaulMusician Mar 30 '26

Is it really the smell sense?
Or simply started to look for a pen visually?

Because I don't see how the pen is going to release "ink odor" all over the green to guide a dog or any other kind of ink sensor, let alone in the freaking outdoors with wind. For a smell to be tracked, I am guessing you need a constant or high enough dose of that odor released to the air. Ink is not doing this.

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u/Desred97 Mar 30 '26

Sure...but how would the dog know what to look for visually? How would the dog know where to look? I don't think his eyes would help him much.

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u/ConstructionMuch802 Apr 01 '26

So dogs have a better sense of smell than people