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An elk's sense of smell has been estimated to be up to 1000 times more acute than that of a human.

With a wind current travelling in their favor, elk have been known to detect odor from well over 600 yards away.

The elk's longish dark brown snout is capped by a large black nose that is kept glistening wet by constant licking with the tongue. No doubt, this keeps the nerves in the nose area acute and allows maximum detection of odors.

Adult male elk are known as "bulls" and weigh an average of 600-700 pounds. Female elk are called "cows" and average 500 pounds. Adults are 7-10 feet long from nose to tail and stand 4.5-5 feet tall at the shoulder.

Elk have broader lateral nostrils which allow them to detect smells directionally called "stereo olfaction".

Whitetail Deer have up to 297 million olfactory receptors compared to humans with just 5 million and dogs with 220 million.

Whitetail deer's sense of smell is nearly 1/3 greater than that of a canine or dog.

A deer can detect the odor of approaching danger several hundred yards away. A deer's elongated noses are filled with an intricate system of nasal passages that contain millions of olfactory receptor sites.

Deer have more than 800 times as many olfactory receptors as a human does.

Whitetail deer has an organ on the roof of the mouth that also interprets smells called the Jacobson's organ and it can sort out smells that come through the mouth.

Some scientists estimate that under perfect conditions, a buck can smell a doe's sexual pheromones from a mile away.

A bear's strongest sense is its sense of smell. Bear are considered to have the best sense of smell of any land mammal.

A bear can pick up a scent from over a mile away. That is seven times better than a bloodhound.

The average dog's sense of smell is 100 times better than a humans. A blood hound's is 300 times better. A bear's sense of smell is 7 times better than a blood hound's or 2,100 times better than a human.

A bear's sense of smell is so acute that they can detect animal carcasses upwind and from a distance of 20 miles away.

Bears have an incredible sense of smell because the area of their brain that manages the sense of smell, called the olfactory bulb, is at least 5 times larger than the same area in human brains even though a bear's brain is one third the size.

The surface area inside their 9 inch noses also has hundreds of times more surface area and receptors than a human's.

Olfaction, the act or process of smelling, is a coyotes primary special sense.

While the human brain is dominated by a large visual cortex, the dog brain is dominated by an olfactory cortex.

A coyote or dog has more than 220 million olfactory receptors in its nose, while humans have only 5 million.

Some dogs can smell human fingerprints that are a week old. That is why one shouldn’t be checking game cameras all the time or continue to ramble through your hunting area out of sheer curiosity.

The average dog's sense of smell is 100 times better than a humans.

Hogs can smell better than deer.

Along with the wild hogs' sense of smell comes acute hearing, as well as eyesight that proves a hog can detect a human figure over 100 yards away.

Wild hogs possess one of the strongest highly developed senses of smell of any animal you will hunt, capable of detecting certain odors in excess of 5 miles away.

Equipped with thick, razor-sharp tusks, and a razor-sharp mind (hogs are the 4th most intelligent animal in the world).

While deer have a particularly good sense of smell, a wild boar puts them to shame.