Jacobs Organ

[drochit]

Many animals use their Jacobs Organ to recognise and greet each other. What exactly is this organ, and do we humans have one as well ?

[j2buttonsw]

Jacobs organ:sp Katten har ett sinne, som inte m�nniskan har, som �r mitt emellan smak och lukt. Sinnet har en egen mottagare som heter Jacobs organ och den har en f�rbindelse med muntaket genom en liten g�ng. Genom g�ngen skickar organet impulser till hj�rnans sexuella centra. N�r katten luktar p� n�gon sexuell doft g�r den en grimas, med "rullande" l�ppar, som kallas "flehmande".

[strozzi]

Jacobs organ : Cat had one mind , as nots human being had , as is midst between flaw and smell. Mind have a egen consignee as am heating Jacobs organ and it has a engagement with muntaket per a petty tread. Per gangway send organ impulse to brain sexual central. When cat am smelling on any sexual perfume do the a grin , with " escalator " lips , as call flehmande ".
Well, that's what my online translator makes of your answer. Pick the bones out of that then.

[strozzi]

I find that the Jacobs Organ is connected to the nose senses and allows animals to seperate and identify air borne particles at a molecular structure level and identify the smell. Elephants are using this sixth sense when they have their trunks in the air and also when they entwine trunks when meeting and greeting each other. Snakes have such an organ in the roof of their mouth. I haven't yet found out whether humans have a Jacobs Organ but I won't let your question beat me Mr. Drochit.

[strozzi]

Not an entirely wasted Sunday morning because I can now report that humans do indeed have a Jacobs Organ.
The vomeronasal organ in humans was discovered in 1703 by a dutch military surgeon named Ruych who was examining a soldier with a facial wound that left open the lateral walls of the nose. Thought once to be a vestigal, the vomeronasal organ is now called Jacobs organ after the Jacobson who discovered this in animals but not in humans. (interestingly Jacobsons findings weren't published until 1811) Described as a small chemosensory organ the vomeronasal organ serves as a receptor of naturally emitted human pheromones. It is a tube that runs beneath the surface of the nasal mucosa. There is one each side of the nasal septum. The vomeronasal nerve is connected to the brain. It travels across the nasal septum to connect with the accessory olfactory bulb and is accompanied by large ganglionic elements of the terminal nerve.
That's me finished and I'm now going to lie down for a while.

[j2buttonsw]

strozzi, where did you find a Swedish to English translator?

[strozzi]

Inter Tran has a freebie.
http://www.tranexp.com:2000/Translate/result.shtml

[j2buttonsw]

Thank you.

[Jacob]

Where can oi foind an English-Zummezet translator?

[Phantaxus]

I think they call it scrumpy