Science News Article: “Mimics do not substitute for the ‘real thing’ for bomb-sniffing dogs”

Summary:  Canines trained on pseudo-explosives could not reliably identify the genuine article (and vice versa). When it comes to teaching dogs how to sniff out explosives, there’s nothing quite like the real thing to make sure they’re trained right.

Date: November 24, 2014
Source:Springer Science+Business Media

“When it comes to teaching dogs how to sniff out explosives, there’s nothing quite like the real thing to make sure they’re trained right. That’s the message from William Kranz, Nicholas Strange and John Goodpaster of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) in the US, after finding that dogs that are trained with so-called “pseudo-explosives” could not reliably sniff out real explosives (and vice versa). Their findings are published online in Springer’s journal Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry.”

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141124080934.htm#.Vt3th-3tOfE.email