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A Spectacled Bear’s Sense of Smell Puts a Bloodhound to Shame 🐻 Smithsonian Channel

The brain of a spectacled bear may be a sixth of the size of a human’s, but the area devoted to smell is almost 18 times larger than our own. The result is a sense of smell that's 7 times stronger tha...

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