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Have you petted a dog 【小题1】(recent)? If that dog touched you with its nose, you were probably 【小题2】(surprise)at how cold it was. If dogs are so warm and fluffy(毛茸茸的), then 【小题3】 are their noses so cold?
In the past, people thought that dogs had cold noses to help 【小题4】(they)control their body temperature. However, 【小题5】 new study has shown some interesting findings about dogs’ noses.
The researchers believed that the tip(尖端)of a dog’s nose has a specific sensory function(探测功能). So, they did an experiment 【小题6】(test)it. The research team studied three dogs. For the experiment, the dogs had to tell the difference 【小题7】 two objects that were heated to different temperatures. All three dogs 【小题8】(be)able to sense the temperature difference in the experiment.
The study also found that the heat from the objects was so weak that it couldn’t be felt by human hands. The dogs could sense the objects from a distance, but humans couldn’t feel the 【小题9】(warm)of the object until they touched it.
The research team also studied the brain activity of 13 dogs. When a warm object 【小题10】(put)near their noses, there was a rise in brain activity.
“From the two experiments, we can say that dogs can sense heat from warm-blooded animals, use this information for hunting, and that a specific region(区域)of the brain is activated(激活)by such heat, ” said Anna Balint, the lead author of the study.