Then there's Buck the golden retriever who, when told to fetch a baseball cap and a cowboy hat for two hunters, found he couldn't hold both in his mouth until he discovered stuffing one inside the other. Now with the larger hat serving as a sort of basket for the smaller one, Buck merrily brought the two hats back to the waiting men. One guy even claimed his Labrador retriever Poco could count to four or five. When Coren said three, the man tossed three lures out into a field of high grass where they could not be seen. A. Anticipation jumpstarts saliva squirting, some of your liter-plus output for the day, containing a slippery glycoprotein that protects the mouth's soft lining and lubricates the food, say Neil Campbell et al.
Oral buffers neutralize acids in the sauce, staving off tooth decay.
Antibacterial agents kill germs riding in, and a digestive enzyme hydrolyzes crust starch. In under 10 seconds, the stuff hits your gut. Q. Driver A explodes off the line in a dragster to reach an incredible 392.54 mph in a sizzling time of 3.72 seconds, setting a record. Driver B rides a rocket sled from standstill to 72.5 mph in .04 seconds, less than an eyeblink. Traveling 1000 mph in a jet can feel like nothing at all, but accelerating up to that speed can be felt plenty.