Essays Tagged: "sense of smell"

The Bear

use his hind legs to stand upright. His front legs could get to hard to reach places. He had a keen sense of smell and hearing but a less well developed sense of sight. This bear had an omnivorous die ...

(3 pages) 48 0 3.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

Bats and their camoflauge, as well as common bat myths.

Bats: A world of camoflaugeNOSE: The sense of smell is well developed in most bats. It is used to find and identify certain foods and to ... example, flying fox bats have very good eyesight and they use their eyes along with their excellent sense of smell to help find food in the dark. Bats' eyes are better at seeing in the dark. Most see ...

(3 pages) 30 0 3.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

A SHARK

A shark?s sense of smell is so good that it can smell a drop of blood spilled in the water more than 656 ft. a ...

(2 pages) 22 0 3.4 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences

Fetal Tissue Research

es, the patients have inability to move, tremor, weakness, poor balance, loss of dexterity, reduced sense of smell, depression, speechless, and double vision. The majority patients will not live long ...

(3 pages) 25 0 5.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Johnny Got His Gun

injured by a land mine. Joe later realizes that he had lost his arms, legs, his hearing, sight, and sense of smell. He laid on a hospital bed dreaming and reminiscing for the majority of the novel. He ...

(1 pages) 22 0 2.4 Mar/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

The Effects of Sea lamprey on the Great Lakes.

ys closely resemble eels. They are a jawless fish that have a large sucking disk for a mouth. Their sense of smell is very well developed and their mouths are filled with very sharp teeth that extend ...

(8 pages) 27 0 4.3 Dec/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geography

Communication.

you enter into the old brick building, the smell of ink and rubbing alcohol instantly captures your sense of smell. The machine running is a sound of loud ruffling noise, like a locomotive, is heard t ...

(2 pages) 84 1 1.3 Jan/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies

Wolf Essay.

ing meat, a bushy tail and round pupils. Wolves live 6 - 10 years in the wild.They used their sharp sense of smell and their excellent hearing to help them find their prey. Wolves eat small animals li ...

(1 pages) 20 0 3.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology

Tiger Shark essay, brief overview

t behind the eyes that provides oxygen flow directly to the eyes and brain. It also has a very good sense of smell, electroreceptors sensitive to electric currents in the water, and very keen eyesight ...

(1 pages) 17 1 3.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology

The dangers of non-metals to the environment

, people cannot live. Although hydrogen sulphide is very foul smelling, it can quickly paralyse the sense of smell, overcome the victim, and cause death.It also causes irritation of mucous membrane in ...

(1 pages) 17 1 4.5 Jan/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Princess Mononoke

e the iron ore, gunpowder, bullets, the rifle, the bomb, the smoke that they use to kill the animal sense of smell, the axe they use to chop down tree which made the god angry, the thing that they use ... in the movie first of all is in wrong time periods so that the setting doesn't makes all that much sense but technology always have good and bad side not only bad and the way that the movie depicts i ...

(2 pages) 2408 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Heaven Can Wait

157; made, which is the conflict in the movie.The plot seemed very confused, like a dog without its sense of smell. The movie jumped in to the rising action as if the exposition got cut short, which s ...

(1 pages) 979 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Edgar Allen Poe

That is because it is believed that 80-90 percent of our ability to taste flavor is referred to our sense of smell and that is our biggest element to taste! The taste of food determines what a ... mell that lets us experience mouth watering flavors. Your smell is one of the most important senses in your body. We detect smells by breathing or sniffing air that carries odors. Odors come fr ...

(2 pages) 11 0 0.0 Feb/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Adaptation and Sensory Perception

to our brains. They help us to interact with our environment. The sensory system is made up of five senses, which correspond to five sense organs. The five senses are vision, hearing, taste, touch, an ... s to interpret the smell as a danger (Wade & Tavris, 2006, p 184).Another example utilizing the sense of smell would be if you were not a smoker and started smoking. As a nonsmoker, you would be a ...

(5 pages) 126 0 4.3 Sep/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Sensation & Perception

Lemurs

hold strong ground in southwest Madagascar. They are the size of a cat and have a highly developed sense of smell. These lemurs inhabit all the levels of the forest. Once an infant is three or four m ...

(2 pages) 9 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology

Jellybean Experiment

1. Does the sense of smell affect our sense of taste? Through the Jellybean Experiment, we were able to examine, ... ect tasting jellybeans with both the nose closed and open allowed us to investigate whether our two senses of smell and taste are indeed related.2. In the Jellybean Experiment, we collected informatio ... oking history. In doing this, we were trying to answer the question of whether smoking affects your sense of taste.3. In the summary table, X and Y represent the total number of correct answers when s ...

(3 pages) 2860 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Rifle Hunting Vs. Archery Hunting

eed to blend in. You will also need a scent cover. All big game animals in Arizona have really good sense of smell. If you are up wind from an animal it will surely smell you. This is easily covered u ...

(4 pages) 6 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Shark Hunting: The Loss of an Apex Predator, and the Corruption of the Ocean Ecosystem

on of the Ocean EcosystemSharks are, without a doubt, one of the world's top predators. With a keen sense of smell, agile tactics and speed, and the ability to devise and recall attack plans, they are ...

(10 pages) 38 0 4.3 Nov/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology