Is it TRUE that animals can SMELL fear??

Question

Is it TRUE that animals can SMELL fear??

Answer 1

my dog can don't no about urse

Answer 2

yes its true  becoz animals cam migrate frm one place to other   they will hve there food they will drink water they do work all like humanbeings  a human cam smell fear y not animals for more contact me 9966507995  animals r also living things like human like us

Answer 3

Well they can sense your nervousness and shakiness. But I wouldn't go as far smelling fear.  

Answer 4

i dnt knw.... can u?

Answer 5

Yes, when you are seriously afraid of something your pours emit an certain scent that animals perceive as a warning of something fearful nearby.

Answer 6

according to research conducted in the laboratory in the basement of my house, cheetahs can smell fear, usually when other animals produce an unvolatile explosion from within their buttocks. Fish can also smell fear once they get over their own stench. im stoned.

My research is wrong actually, the only l;iving thing that can smell fear is Chuck Norris. believe me. its true

Answer 7

it's an expression

Answer 8

No they can't SMELL it but they are much more perseptive of the common signs of fear.

Some animals like sharks can sense changes in vibrations that prey make and this alerts them to it.

If you think about it, how can anything smell fear? Fear is a state of being. It's an abstract noun. Fear isn't really a thing.

Answer 9

I've heard that it was and I think it is...

Answer 10

It may not necessarily be solely through the sense of smell but yes, there are certain biological, physiological and behavioural changes that would indicate to an observer, fear. One is more likely to precipitate (cold sweat) when frightened and/or at times, wet themselves thus leading to possible use of the term 'smell fear'.

Look up Fight or Flight response. This should give you the answer you want. We all have this Fight or Flight response in us as does any complex living organism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight-or-fl...

Answer 11

Don't know, but it could be that the adrenaline released during fear and the sweat too.

Answer 12

yeah i think soo. I think dogs are the ones that do it best

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Answer 13

Not really, but not far from it.

Living beings reacts to their emotion, different scents maybe emitted when in different emotional states.  

Some (not all) animals may sense or smell those scents (or heat, noise..etc), as indication of fear, love, anger or other emotions.

Answer 14

fear triggers pheromones that are excreted in sweat, we dont notice it since we have adapted to use body signals but its there, so yes its true

Answer 15

fear doesent have a smell but they can tell when something is about to go wrong

Answer 16

Um. No. No one can, thats impossibleee

Answer 17

Animals can tell be how you react. If you watch a horse for example when it is frightened it will pin its ears back and get tense all over. Animals notice the same differences. They can't actually "smell" fear.

Answer 18

people sayy that but i never believed it but i think it is true

Answer 19

I'm sorry to say the majority of people that have answered this have been incorrect.

Most animals can not the one's that can that created the expression can hear your heart rate. When you are afraid your heart beats faster and pumps more blood (you can't control that, naturally does when you're scared to make you more alert).

Animals like sharks, and snakes, or animals higher on the food chain (discluding us), can sense when your heart beats faster and pumps more blood.

By the way, you don't emit anything from your pores when your nervous, someone said that, that's not true,

Answer 20

Some, yes.