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It is called as hound to that type of dog that is guided especially by its smell and has a huge skill at the time of the hunt.

Its salient physical characteristics include: great bearing, long ears and short hair. It should be noted that the word hound, in this sense, is often used as synonym of dog.

The Federation Cynological International (FCI), which is the organization that deals with promote and monitor the breeding of domestic dogs , established that there are a variety of types of hounds among which the St. Hubert's Dog or Bloodhound, such is its name in the English language.
San Huberto is a native of Belgium and the FCI distinguishes him especially for his very fine sense of smell, being the most outstanding in this aspect in the whole world. Proof of this enormous olfactory capacity is that they can follow the trail of someone or something after fifteen days of their presence in a place x. The huge sensitivity Their smell is physically determined by the internal folds that they have just in their nostrils.

Taking into account this provision special is that the Bloodhound is widely used by the forces of safety of a nation as far as tracking work is concerned, because it is difficult for these wonderful specimens to miss something.

Even, this breed has a very long history that involves it with the very English monarchy, since the King William I of England, which became popular as William the Conqueror , and who reigned between the years 1066 and 1087, he knew how to use these dogs during his deeds.

On the other hand, in the languagecolloquial and derived from the aforementioned reference, another common use of this word arises, which allows us to refer to that person who turns out to be very skilled and suitable at the time of the investigation or having to follow in the footsteps of some event or someone. It is worth mentioning that this sense of the word can also be called with the following synonyms: detective and investigator. For example, researchers in the jargon are called hounds.