NOSES IN NATURE

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 145, 16 December 1929, Page 10

NOSES IN NATURE

AN ENTERTAINING ARTICLE

(From "The Post's" Representative.) NEW YORK, 30th October.

Noses, and their characteristics in the animal kingdom, form the theme of an informative article by Mr. Robert T. Hatt, Assistant Curator of Mammals, American Museum. He observes that the human nose is equipped to perform two important functions other than smelling: to 'remove impurities from the air and kill harmful bacteria before they reach the respiratory passages, and to warm the usually cooler air to body temperature. The hippopotamus, crocodile, and whale, being submersibles, have their noses so placed that they may keep them out of tie water without fear of observation by their natural enemies. , The sense of smell is highly developed in savage people because of the thousand and one ways in which they are totally dependent on it for survival in their primitive environment. In similar conditions - the while man's sense of smell would probably again become as keen as tneir6.

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