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29th Mar 2010

Who has the cleaner mouth, dogs or humans?


Diana O'Carroll
Dogs - Social animals

With a question we can really get out teeth into, we explore why a dog's mouth might be cleaner then a human's from the perspective of getting a bite from either.  Who's got the worst oral bacteria?  Plus, we ask how worms survive flooding of their soil-y burrows.

 

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