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tangoking
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Are Humans able to Smell Underground Truffles?
#11591219 - 12/05/09 04:22 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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Is it possible for a human to find a truffle by smell?
I know that hunger enhances my sense of smell, and when I smoke cigarettes I can't smell anything for a few days. If I didn't smoke and went hunting hungry, would I be able to smell truffles if I sniffed around an oak tree?
Notwithstanding what any bystanders will think....
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Re: Are Humans able to Smell Underground Truffles? [Re: tangoking]
#11591282 - 12/05/09 04:31 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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You would have to have one hell of a nose...
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tangoking
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Re: Are Humans able to Smell Underground Truffles? [Re: jimbotron]
#11591294 - 12/05/09 04:34 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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Are you sure? Isn't that what makes a truffle so distinctive... it's pungent smell?
Does it not rely on this to be found and eaten by animals, thus spreading its spores through their droppings?
I think that I could smell a truffle. If I find one and manage to sell it, I'm donating the proceeds of my first sale to the Shroomery. 
If anyone needs me, I'll be sniffing around an oak tree...
Edited by tangoking (12/05/09 11:15 PM)
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bezoo69
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Re: Are Humans able to Smell Underground Truffles? [Re: tangoking]
#11591513 - 12/05/09 05:13 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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can you smell out peoples grow ops?, would be a handy tool...
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Re: Are Humans able to Smell Underground Truffles? [Re: bezoo69]
#11591711 - 12/05/09 05:52 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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ive smeeled geopora cooperii while rummaging under trees before and dug it up 
they smell really good you would think they would be more popular...
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Re: Are Humans able to Smell Underground Truffles? [Re: bezoo69]
#11592370 - 12/05/09 07:32 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
bezoo69 said: can you smell out peoples grow ops?, would be a handy tool...
why? so you can rob them?
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Re: Are Humans able to Smell Underground Truffles? [Re: burtonRebel]
#11592399 - 12/05/09 07:36 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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if humans could smell truffles they would be HELLA lot cheaper then what they go for now
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Keg
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Re: Are Humans able to Smell Underground Truffles? [Re: fordrew]
#11592727 - 12/05/09 08:18 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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animals tend to have a much better evolved sense of smell than humans. Just how evolution worked. Probably something to do with animals being lower to the ground so vision wouldn't work nearly as well for finding food in a forested habitat.
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psylosymonreturns
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Re: Are Humans able to Smell Underground Truffles? [Re: Keg]
#11602536 - 12/07/09 11:25 AM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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i find my senses are more in tune when i eat a few grams of liberty caps,so maybe you might wanna try that. or you can get a pig or a good dog and spend the time to train them.
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trigger
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is there any electronic smelling devices for truffles?
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Re: Are Humans able to Smell Underground Truffles? [Re: trigger]
#11602952 - 12/07/09 12:35 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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Only one man could do it.
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obi
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Quote:
psylosymonreturns said: i find my senses are more in tune when i eat a few grams of liberty caps
Agreed.
Not that I could locate truffles though...
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