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Do you think ants would be better than dogs at detecting disease

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Ants Have a Sense of Smell Better Than That of a Dog

Not bad for a creature that doesn't have an actual nose—you read that right. An ant's smell receptors are actually in its long antennae. This is important because smell is everything for ants
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Ants are as good as sniffer dogs at detecting disease

“Ants are thus equivalent to dogs – the most studied bio-detectors in terms of detection abilities,” the researchers write.

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