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63Detection dogs
Dogs have a much more powerful sense of smell than humans, being able to detect odours from drugs, underground gas leaks, buried dead bodies, currency, explosives, mines and even human illnesses. Scientists have conducted experiments where dogs can sniff out the start of epilepsy and diabetes.
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58Nest Box
The swift is a medium-sized bird, and a superb flier. It can sleep while on the wing! It's a plain, sooty brown, but in flight it appears black. The Swift can be seen in Summer with its long, scythe-like wings and a short, forked tail, right across the UK. Often they fly very high. They never perch on wires like other birds. Occasionally you can see flocks of them dashing madly at high speed doing aerobatics, sometimes around rooftops and houses, often flying low.
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59Our dog
Old dogs-Pippa, a crazy bearded collie.The first of our dogs. The local farmer was looking for homes for the litter that his sheepdog had given birth to. We had the runt. A tiny ball of fur that grew and grew and grew. In the end she...
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