"Synsk" katt. Utrolig historie ... (VG)

[Miss Norway]

Opprinnelig lagt inn av Mammatuss, her.

Dyr har vel en syvende sans og kan ense "vibber" vi ikke kan - men denne varianten var litt creepy da

Tja, ikke så veldig kanskje. Dyr har rett og slett bedre luktesans. Og døende pleietrengende gamle har sikkert endringer i forbrenningen som katten kan oppfatte. For eksempel.

At dyr kan merke sykdom og symptomer er ikke nytt. Sjekk her i BMJ.

Sitat:

The hypothesis that dogs may be able to detect malignant tumours on the basis of odour was first put forward by Williams and Pembroke in a letter to the Lancet in 1989. Their thinking arose from a consultation with a woman who claimed to have sought medical help as a direct result of her dog's inordinate interest in a skin lesion, which subsequently proved to be a malignant melanoma.

Since then similar anecdotal claims of detection of skin cancer, and of malignancies of internal organs such as breast and lung, have appeared in the press and in a further letter to the Lancet. Although these anecdotal events remain unsupported by experimental evidence, the concept that dogs can "smell" cancer is not unreasonable.

Tumours produce volatile organic compounds, which are released into the atmosphere through, for example, breath and sweat. Some of these volatile organic compounds are likely to have distinctive odours; even when present in minute quantities, they could be detectable by dogs, with their exceptional olfactory acuity.

*gledesdreper med sans for teorimangfold*