Pigs have such a good sense of smell, why are there only police dogs and no police pigs?

Pigs have a more sensitive sense of smell than dogs. For example, pigs are born with the smell of truffles buried deep in the ground, and truffle-obsessed Europeans dig up large and numerous truffles with their help; Dogs, on the other hand, need to be deliberately trained to find truffles.

In some places, pigs are even used to search for drugs, find traces of criminals, and breed a group of "anti-drug pigs". These petite anti-drug pigs can enter places where anti-drug dogs can't go and conduct more detailed searches.

Pigs have a sensitive sense of smell, and pigs are several times more capable of distinguishing tastes than dogs, but they are relatively difficult to train than dogs.

The smell characteristics of dogs play a relatively large role, so people usually think that dogs have a more sensitive sense of smell, but in fact, pigs have a more sensitive sense of smell than dogs.

You're right, the pig's sense of smell is even the source.

Dogs are better to put in France customarily.

The sow is used as a right-hand man in the black truffle harvest. Sows have an extremely sensitive sense of smell and can smell truffles buried in the ground at a depth of 25 to 30 cm from a distance of 6 meters. But the sow has a gluttonous problem, and if she is not careful, the sow will frantically arch out the truffles she finds and eat them directly.

Dogs are used now, and many years ago Pike, the British criminal police captain on Falkler Island, rescued a small wild boar from the mouth of a turtle. The boar has a very sensitive sense of smell and can sniff out all kinds of things buried in the ground, so Captain Pike spent 3 months training him to search for drugs and named him Rose. Falkler Island is sparsely populated, but it is also famous through media reports, and the British police chief knows that he has not said much to adopt this police pig, and there is no plan to train police pigs, I was serving in the military dog base of the British Army Dog Corps, in fact, the animals serving in the army have dogs, horses, mules, pigeons, camels and cows, so I know that there is an internal directive, in the selection of animals to serve to pay attention to the operation of the image of cooperation, drug detection dogs often appear in the public, since the dog can take charge, the little police pig has also retired.

There are police pigs in Europe and the United States, who says there are none.

Police pigs have poor eyesight and are not as flexible as police dogs

Maybe when you see this title, your mind will be full of doubts, what, what the hell is the police pig, yes, you read that right, it is the police pig.

In the evening, the teacher was giving a lecture and suddenly asked us a question: Do you know what animals are more sensitive to smell than dogs? As a result, the audience was quiet, and only a few students jokingly said: Pigs! Yes, the answer is Zheng Oak Pig.

I watched a documentary about "pigs" before, and the documentary said that in the animal world, the pig's IQ is second only to that of dolphins, and its sense of smell is also the most sensitive. In fact, many people have always been prejudiced against "pigs", thinking that it is delicious and lazy, and people often say: You are stupid like a pig!

Guess the friends came to scold people, but they didn't know that they praised the scolded person fiercely.

Everyone knows that police dogs, it is difficult to associate police and pigs, it seems to be a fantasy thing, but this kind of thing really exists, the New York Times has reported on the police "pigs" incident, and in France, there have also been police trained pigs used to search for ** things.

So if pigs are so good, why haven't they been popularized in the police station? Let's think about how you would feel if you called the police and a policeman with a dog was replaced by a policeman with a pig!!

Of course, this is just a joke, I also read some analysis on the Internet: after all, the physical strength of pigs is not as good as that of dogs, and most of the pigs' sense of smell is used to find food. So from a scientific point of view, the viability of police pigs is much worse than that of dogs.

No one knows if police pigs will become more common in the future, but more importantly, we hope that there will be less danger and crime in the future!

Because a pig has more olfactory cells than a dog, it has a more sensitive sense of smell. However, the intimacy between pigs and humans is far less than that between dogs and people, and the obedience of pigs is not as high as that of dogs, so the customs only uses dogs instead of pigs for drug seizure.

A dog's sense of smell is the most sensitive among animals, and a pig's sense of smell is no more sensitive than that of a dog. Even though pigs have a more sensitive sense of smell than dogs, they are large and move slowly, and their IQ is lower than that of dogs.

Because dogs are easier to domesticate than pigs, and when encountering criminals, dogs can also help the police to fight criminals, compared to pigs, which are not so popular.

For anti-narcotics operations, in addition to the sense of smell, what is very much needed is action and vigilance. Dogs have a high degree of vigilance, even at two or three o'clock in the morning, they will be woken up by a little wind and grass, so it is very suitable for drug detection dogs.