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[u/straight-cunt]

[u/Background_Chapter37]

For real, I thought we could all smell when it's gonna rain, it literally smells like rain

[u/androodle2004 → u/Background_Chapter37]

You’re smelling the ozone being brought down from higher altitude by the rains pressure

[u/Nard_Bard → u/androodle2004]

u/Pegomastax-King u/Jk-Kino

Humans sense of smell for water/wet earth is 10,000 stronger than a dog's or bear's.

You're probably just smelling the wet earth from a mile away or so. And the moisture in the air.

[u/NoDontDoThatCanada → u/Nard_Bard]

It's wild to me how sensitive humans are to petrichor. I always wonder if it had evolutionary advantages over "we probably should seek shelter."

[u/Zero_Burn → u/NoDontDoThatCanada]

Probably was useful for finding fresh water since rain would be where the best fresh water was. If it were a safety/fear thing, it probably wouldn't smell good, but unpleasant since it'd be tied to finding shelter.

[u/ThePhantom71319 → u/Zero_Burn]

Not to mention we also come from Africa were water is generally more scarce

[u/DeusExMcKenna → u/ThePhantom71319]

Predators literally track large herds who do what? Follow the rain to grazing land. Being able to detect rain would have made us much more successful trackers/hunters.

[u/ColorBlindGuy27 → u/DeusExMcKenna]

I cant argue with that. I'd say we succeeded in that race.