An animal's sense of smell is linked to the number of olfactory receptor genes it has. And elephants, well, they have a lot of them, nearly 2,000 — more than any other animal we know of.

Researchers at Tokyo Medical and Dental University in Japan studied genes of 13 mammals. They found African elephants (pictured) have the greatest sense of smell, while humans have the worst.

African elephants possess a sense of smell that is likely the strongest ever identified in a single species, according to a study by scientists from the University of Tokyo. Elephants have nearly ...

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