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NOSEY (continued): • One such beast with an extraordinary sense of humanitarian purposes.” It is a company registered smell is the bear. A bear’s brain is only about a in Belgium with headquarters in Tanzania. Their third of the size of a human brain but his nose is rats are called HeroRATs. approximately five times larger; the nasal mucous • Three countries that have been helped with mine membrane in a bear’s head is 100 times larger than detection rats are Tanzania, Mozambique and the membrane in a human! Their nostrils have folds Thailand. When the land is cleared of landmines, that house thousands of smell receptors making not only does it make an area safer for those their sense of smell better than bloodhounds and living nearby but it also makes the land accessible possibly the best of any land animal. Bears use for use and many times opens up water sources their sense of smell to find mates, identify their nearby as well. cubs, find food, and detect and avoid dangerous • HeroRATs are also trained for tubercolsis situations involving other bears or humans. detection. Read about these super smellers at: • In California, a black bear was seen traveling http://apopo.org/home.php?lang=en. upwind in a straight line for three miles to find a dead deer. Some studies have shown that a bear’s • On to a prettier animal – moths can sniff out a sense of smell is actually seven times better than future mate in flight 6-7 miles (9-11 km) away. The feathery antennae allow this fine searching a bloodhound’s. ability. • Speaking of bloodhounds; they are possibly the best detectives known! Their sense of smell is • Snakes use their tongues in a flicking action not so good that they beat the best man-made odor just to scare humans and animals, but to smell detecting machines. Even after several days of with. Snakes do have nostrils and nasal cavities a person’s trail going through streets, shops and but don’t use them to smell. more, a bloodhound can still follow the scent. • Most birds have keen eyesight but their sense Some dogs have been trained to detect types of of smell is lacking. The albatross is an exception. cancer with greater accuracy than very expensive This large bird hovers above the water, usually screening equipment. an ocean, looking for its next meal. An albatross • Detecting scents underwater is what a shark’s has an extra-large nose on top of its beak. The brain does well. Approximately two-thirds of a oversized honker helps an albatross detect food shark’s brain is focused on smell. They can detect even in the dark. a tiny drop of blood from more than a mile (1.6 • People with oversized noses tend to have many km) away. They can even detect nervousness in critics. Some celebrities have actually become other fish, which helps them find and destroy prey famous in part because of their noses. Many refer very easily. to their noses as a proboscis, a facetious use of the • In many instances humans have better recall of word that is defined as a trunk of an elephant or a smells than visual recall. One study found a 65% long flexible snout, usually referring to animals. accuracy for smell after a year, while visual recall • Jimmy Durante was a very popular entertainer of photos was below 50% after only three months. known for his jokes about his nose and a silly song • Rats can be trained, like dogs, to use their he called Inka Dinka Do he recorded in 1934. A extraordinary sense of smell to help humans in great piano player, jazz musician, band leader and life-saving ways, one of which is to detect land one of the early stars of television, his nickname mines. Rats can smell in stereo, with each of their was Schnozzola, a name he coined himself for his large nose. nostrils working independently! • The advantage to using rats instead of dogs for • Bing Crosby called his friend and fellow this type of defense work is not just because of comedian, Bob Hope, “Old Ski Nose.” Hope’s dogs’ reputation as “man’s best friend” and the nose wasn’t especially big but was long and thin close relationships handlers form with dogs but and had a bit of a curve up. Many caricatures were drawn of the comic’s nose. Hope joked about his also because they are cheaper to keep and train. nose saying that “my nose came on screen 10 • Giant African pouched rats are used for mine minutes before the rest of my face.” detection by APOPO, an acronym from the Dutch language which means Anti=Persoonsmijnen • Another large-nosed entertainer was Danny Ontmijnende Product Ontwikkeling. In case you Thomas. He was the star of Make Room for don’t speak Dutch, it is translated Anti-Personnel Daddy, a popular television comedy from 1953Landmines Detection Product Development. 64. He left an honorable legacy by founding the St. APOPO conducts research and “develops and Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, disseminates detection rats technology for Tennessee in 1962. ■

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Dodgeball Tournament for High School Students Like to play dodgeball? Get your friends together and sign up for the dodgeball tournament being held on April 13th, at the Recreation Center at Hillside gym. Each team will consist of six players, have a team name, and have team uniforms (same color shirts, etc.). This is a double elimination tournament so you are guaranteed at least two games. So register your team and let’s play some dodgeball! Players register individually and will need a team name at the time of registration.

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won’t get there until Monday. Netflix DVDs expected to arrive for the weekend won’t arrive until Monday. Time sensitive outof-town newspapers will be delayed. Bills mailed with the expectation that Saturday is a working day may arrive late. If you vote by mail, you’ll need to mail earlier. Over the past two years, the Postal Service has made numerous changes to try to bring down its operating costs. Hours have been cut at smaller post offices, staff has been reduced, and some post offices have closed completely. In spite of these cost reductions, the price of a stamp has been raised to 46 cents. If you haven’t used online bill payment in the past, this might be the time to investigate how it’s done and calculate your monthly savings. If you’re printing out a multi-page document to mail, consider reducing the number of pages by expanding the margins slightly so

that more text fits on each page and reduce the font size slightly. The top and bottom margins are where you’ll get the most additional lines per page. Listen for the next increase in the cost of stamps and stock up before the change goes into effect. Invest in postcards for short messages. If you send quite a few packages, investigate ClickN-Ship and save up to 16 percent by weighing your own packages, printing your labels and paying with a credit card or PayPal. The U.S. won’t be alone in this change. Canada, Sweden and Australia already deliver five days a week. David Uffington regrets that he cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into his column whenever possible. Write to him in care of King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send e-mail to columnreply@gmail.com. (c) 2012 King Features Synd., Inc.

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will go home for the summer and leave many of their volunteer tasks undone. Where can you pitch in? Enjoy your planning! Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into her column whenever possible. Write to her in care of King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send e-mail to columnreply@gmail.com. (c) 2012 King Features Synd., Inc.

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