Smell Ans Taste Flashcards
Why are smell/taste often described together
Both chemoreceptors
Smell transmitted from back of throat (enhances taste of food)
Food has smell and taste
What do the olfactory epithelium in nose and taste receptors on tongue detect
Both chemoreceptors, detect chemical substances
Why do dogs/cats have more developed sense of smell
Help to find food
Sense danger
Seek out reproduction (smell pheromones)
Vomeronasal organ
Specialized for smells with social meaning or sexual interpretation (pheomones)
Transmits to limbic system (emotions)
In roof of mouth
Used for aggressive/reproductive behaviour
Vomeronasal organ
Specialized for smells with social meaning or sexual interpretation (pheomones)
Transmits to limbic system (emotions)
In roof of mouth
Used for aggressive/reproductive behav
Vomeronasal organ
Specialized for smells with social meaning or sexual interpretation (pheomones)
Transmits to limbic system (emotions)
In roof of mouth
Used for aggressive/reproductive behav
Vomeronasal organ
Specialized for smells with social meaning or sexual interpretation (pheomones)
Transmits to limbic system (emotions)
In roof of mouth
Used for aggressive/reproductive behav
Flehmen response
Lift upper lip and open mouth to enlarge vomeronasal ducts and chemical transfer
Pheromones
Chemicals that affect behaviour Come from glands Secreted into saliva, urine, feces Can be secreted for marking (urine, A/G) Detected by vomeronasal/Flehmen response
Not all cats respond to catnip
Catnip can lose potency over time
50% of cats don’t respond
Age, sex, genetics, stress
Catnip
Member of the mint family
Releases happy pheromones
Synthetic pheromones
Reduce stress in cats
Feliway/adaptil
Reduce anxiety, help calm, seperation anxiety, spraying,scratching
Feliway
Pheromone produced when cat content/rubbing itself on things
DAP/Adaptil
Released from bitch 3-5 days after whelping to calm puppies
Cats lack receptor for sweetness
Cats may not eat if congested, loss of smell
Warming food may increase appetite
