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To: Ron who wrote (338374)	3/30/2021 9:29:29 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 360975

Very interesting. I don't know about cats, but dogs do it to a good extent based on the lingering scent. When a dog smells something, he doesn't just get the scent like humans do. Dogs can distinguish between recent and old scents (even if they are identical) and therefore they get the whole history of the place via smell rather than just what it smells like. During lure competitions, a raccoon is often walked along an obstacle course. They often walk the racoon to a tree, make it circle around it, go up, then have it come back down and back track on the same path before going to another spot. Trained dogs are not fooled by this. They read the whole history of the trip off the scent and distinguish between the older (and double scented) smell of the raccoon and the fresher one that went the other way. Dogs also recognize the cumulative scent of a neighborhood and its inhabitants. So they can find their way to get closer to that neighborhood as wind brings it in. I am sure they have other senses too, but their sense of smell is absolutely amazing in ways that a human cannot relate to.

To: Ron who wrote (338374)	3/30/2021 10:31:58 AM
From: Cautious_Optimist	3 Recommendations Recommended By abuelita pocotrader Ron Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 360975

Some of what we stand to learn may prove existentially critical, not only for other species but for our own. There's that word we love to ponder, again. If Sioux and polvie could find their way home... Or is that back-assward? Could be we're all temporarily away from home, finding our way back... with existential other-reality critical navigation beyond space-time as perceived by our monkey minds? Is "?" the most powerful and critical punctuation mark, existentially? (Pass the bong.)

To: Ron who wrote (338374)	3/30/2021 11:58:50 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 360975

When I was younger (why do all my stories start with that ?) I lived in a rural setting with no high power electric lines. I had an unfailing sense of direction. I'm sure it was magnetic in nature. When I went to a city for college my sense of direction was confused, and then there was about a week where I felt the whole world was spinning around me. I was so dizzy I couldn't walk and stayed home as if I were sick. When that episode was over, I had lost my sense of direction. It was very strange because I was barely aware that I had that ability until it was gone. I've become accustomed to using technology now to tell North from South.