Nostrils
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Arriving within twenty feet of the skiff, the dugong stopped, sharply sniffing the air with its huge
nostrils
, pierced not at the tip of its muzzle but on its topside.
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You've got a long snout that has 200 million scent receptors in it, and you have wet
nostrils
that attract and trap scent molecules, and your
nostrils
even have slits so you can take big nosefuls of air.
Smell starts when you sniff molecules from the air into your
nostrils.
But even though we've all got the same physiological set-up, two
nostrils
and millions of olfactory neurons, not everybody smells the same things.
If you get too close, it burns your eyes and stings your
nostrils.
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