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Question
Give examples of animals that may have a very strong sense of sight, hearing, or smell.
Solution
Some examples are as follows:
- A police dog can smell explosives; which cannot be detected by human beings.
- An eagle can see its small prey from high in the sky.
- A dog can hear the faintest sound of someone’s footsteps.
- A mosquito can find a human being by smelling his body odour.
- Some animals behave in a strange manner in case of a natural calamity that is about to happen.
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