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Dogs can sense weak thermal radiation

The dog rhinarium (naked and often moist skin on the nose-tip) is prominent and richly innervated, suggesting a sensory function. Compared to nose-tips of herbivorous artio- and perissodactyla, carnivoran rhinaria are considerably colder. We hypothesized that this coldness makes the dog rhinarium pa...

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Autores principales: Bálint, Anna, Andics, Attila, Gácsi, Márta, Gábor, Anna, Czeibert, Kálmán, Luce, Chelsey M., Miklósi, Ádám, Kröger, Ronald H. H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7048925/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32111902
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60439-y