Posted on 10/26/2006 11:04:30 AM PDT by blam
Curious thing is that the best explanation is that a human can easily detect - not wounded animals - but wounded people. See, the article goes on to describe that these "powererful" compounds (which to be powerful, means we have a built-in receptor for it) are only apparent when blood is mixed with human skin oil.
Not elephant skin oil. Not aurochs sweat. Human skin. Which means that it is easy for humans to track bloody humans, not deer, by smell.
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