Posted on 09/10/2009 2:52:39 AM PDT by Natufian
When animals die, their corpses exude a particular "stench of death" which repels their living relatives, scientists have discovered.
Corpses of animals as distantly related as insects and crustaceans all produce the same stench, caused by a blend of simple fatty acids.
The smell helps living animals avoid others that have succumbed to disease or places where predators lurk.
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Ancient “smell of death” revealed (in Charlie Rangel’s butt)
LOL.
Well stink is stink. Manure works pretty good too.
The BBC saw 0bamas speech.
Are you saying something crawled up charlies arse and died?
It’s beyond interesting. We now know how to eliminate roaches from an area. I wonder if that stuff works on congressman and senators. Spray the Capitol with it and maybe they’ll spend more time out of session than in.
The death-odor has a high concentration of indoles, chemicals that are also present in flowers such as jasmine and ylang-ylang.
The makers of scents are well aware of this, and include these flowers in perfumes and cosmetics.
Perhaps it’s because we find a small dose of fear and danger attractive.
I guess the researchers don’t know that “the smell of death” means a meal for some animals.
India. I’ve been there and Seinfeld was right.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Or...Barneys frank.
Shouldn’t Helen be working on end-of-life planning?
Olfactory code meaning “Don’t eat this.”
You never saw my dog go after a nice steaming pile of horse apples....but he’d never go after a decaying squirrel....yet, he loves to roll in a good dead fish.
Go figure....
Putrescine or cadaverine?
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