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Dogs taste buds

Updated: 8/11/2023
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A dog's senses of taste and smell are closely linked and it is possible that dogs gain more information about food from its smell than from its taste. Dogs have a vomeronasal organ in the roof of their mouths which allows them to "taste" certain smells. This organ transmits information directly to the part of the brain known as the limbic system, which controls emotional responses. Most of a dog's taste buds are clustered around the tip of the tongue. Dogs can detect bitter, sweet, salty, and sour tastes, but their sense of taste is relatively poor and they have only one-sixth the number of taste buds that humans have.

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Yes animals can taste. Some animals, like cats, sense of taste dulls as they age. Some even use their sense of taste to help smell proving useful when hunting.

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the number of tast buds on a dogs tongue are 27000

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