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On Tuesday, April 03, 2012 03:35:19 guskant wrote:
> The number of variety of olfactory receptors is totally different from
> that of taste.
> remna have at least 347 olfactory receptors to distinguish volatile
> chemical materials. Other animals have more. It is too difficult to
> use so many categories for expressing smell.
> 
> As for color expressions, I agree Escape Landsome.
> In addition, remna has only 3 kind of cone cells, but some other
> animals have also that for ultra-violet. A robot may have more. In
> that case, our set of color words is too small.

Some animals have three, but a different range than we do, hence "bicnukni". 
Birds may have four or five, with colored oil droplets that add shades of color 
to each of their primaries. I've heard of a crustacean with ten primary 
colors.

Pierre
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