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Honeybees can be trained to locate landmines due to their acute sense of smell. Croatian scientists mixed a sugar solution with a small amount of TNT — and after about five minutes of hunting for this doped sugar solution, the honeybees are trained to flock to the smell of TNT.

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MI5 once had a plan to use Gerbils to detect terrorists/spies at airports, as their sense of smell can acutely detect increased adrenalin in people. The project was scrapped when the Gerbils proved unable to tell the difference between terrorists and those afraid of flying.

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1. There are approximately 35,000 stray dogs living on the streets of Moscow. Some have learned to obey traffic signals and, through their acute sense of smell, navigate the subway system. There is even a statue for Malchik, a stray dog who was stabbed by a passerby in 2001.

2. Beagle has acute sense of smell thanks to 220 million scent receptors in the nose (44 times more than humans). Beagles are official dogs of the US government that are used to prevent smuggling of illegal agricultural products into America.

3. Goliath frogs have large eyes and acute sense of hearing, but they do not possess vocal cords and cannot produce sounds during the mating season.

4. Cute was originally a shortened form of acute in the sense "keenly perceptive or discerning, shrewd." Cute probably came to be used as a term of approbation for things demonstrating acuteness or ingenious design, and so it went on to develop its own sense of "pretty, fetching."

5. In the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami that struck on 26 December 2004, relatively few animals we reported dead. “Animals' more acute hearing and other senses might enable them to hear or feel the Earth's vibration, tipping them off to approaching disaster.”

6. Dogs have such an acute sense of smell that they can detect various forms of cancer