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<blockquote data-quote="megalomaniac" data-source="post: 5220800" data-attributes="member: 2805"><p>I have no idea whether bucks hit scrapes more frequently after a rain, but I completely disagree with you that scents are not intensified by humidity/ rain. That's just simple science, easily repeatable, easily replicable on molecular level. 'Moisture and humidity increase the sense of smell for deer' is just bull crap. The deers ability to sense smell doesn't change on a whim day to day. While their unchanged ability to detect scent is unaltered by ambient atmospheric conditions, increased humidity causes MORE scent molecules to be available to detected. And humidity causes air to become heavier, sink toward ground level, and thereby makes it easier for animals to detect scents in wet and humid conditions.</p><p></p><p>Just simple physics.</p><p></p><p>Maybe deer are hitting scrapes more frequently after a rain NOT because they are 'freshening them up', but are rather attracted to the scrapes because of the increased scent molecules available to be detected with increased humidity, drawing them in.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megalomaniac, post: 5220800, member: 2805"] I have no idea whether bucks hit scrapes more frequently after a rain, but I completely disagree with you that scents are not intensified by humidity/ rain. That's just simple science, easily repeatable, easily replicable on molecular level. 'Moisture and humidity increase the sense of smell for deer' is just bull crap. The deers ability to sense smell doesn't change on a whim day to day. While their unchanged ability to detect scent is unaltered by ambient atmospheric conditions, increased humidity causes MORE scent molecules to be available to detected. And humidity causes air to become heavier, sink toward ground level, and thereby makes it easier for animals to detect scents in wet and humid conditions. Just simple physics. Maybe deer are hitting scrapes more frequently after a rain NOT because they are 'freshening them up', but are rather attracted to the scrapes because of the increased scent molecules available to be detected with increased humidity, drawing them in. [/QUOTE]
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