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It is nice to wander past a rose garden and smell the flowers.

But the smell of an old sandwich found at the bottom of your

school bag is altogether different!

Did you know that some animals even talk to each other using smells?

Dogs are famous for this. When a dog is going for a walk and wees

on a tree trunk, it is actually leaving news about itself to dogs

that it won’t even meet.

It is a bit like sending a text message –

I WAS HERE AT 7AM ON SATURDAY, I AM FOUR YEARS OLD,

I AM MALE AND I’M TOUGH.

Many insects talk to each other by smell.

Girl moths make a certain smell to tell boys they are ready

to make babies. One especially sneaky spider (the bolas spider)

also sends out the female moth’s smell.

It attracts male moths…and eats them!

Smell may not be the main way we humans communicate but,

to many animals, when it comes to telling each other important facts,

 the nose knows!

Activity: Can you think of any examples where people use

an animal's sense of smell to find things that it is difficult

for us to find on our own?