[1][2] "Uncommon Sense" was first published in the September 1945 edition of Astounding Science Fiction and included in Clement's 1969 collection Small Changes.
[6] Laird Cunningham is a rich man who enjoys travelling to distant worlds in search of bizarre life forms.
Cunningham realises that the animals navigate mostly by smell, since the extremely bright, undiffused sunlight would hamper an optical sense.
The blood freezes in the cold of the night and he attaches the resulting small bars of metal to the remaining cracks in his ship's hull.
The SF Site described "Uncommon Sense" as a classic hard science fiction work, in which the story is predicated "on the protagonist's ability to solve a scientific puzzle in the context of the conditions of an alien world.