Elephants possess a sense of smell that is likely the strongest ever identified in a single species, according to a recent study by Japanese scientists.
The African elephant’s genome contains the largest number of olfactory receptor (OR) genes – nearly 2,000 – said the study in the journal Genome Research.
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