Super Senses: Wild Feats of Evolution

1 4 Smell and Taste On this episode of Super Senses, we examine how things taste, and how vital scent is from the animal perspective. Some animals’ sense of smell can detect odors from miles away, and can be as powerful a tool as sight is in humans. In mammals, taste receptor cells are scattered over the tongue, but in other creatures, they can be located in some fairly odd places.