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Your nose can sense smell best when your are 10 years old. That's probably why kids notice gross smells faster than adults.


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Animal behaviourists have started studying other animal behaviourists! At a recent conference in Massachusetts, USA, researchers from the Marine Biological Laboratory watched 42 presentations and examined how the presenters ‘doodled’ shapes with laser pointers. They found that bird behaviourists used 4 kinds of different doodles, scientists studying other vertebrates used 2.3 kinds of doodles and scientists studying invertebrates used only 1.5 different kinds of shapes during their talks.
7 SEPTEMBER 2000
The Globe and Mail
7 SEPTEMBER 2000

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