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Originally Posted by afterburn 549
POST 27 acknowledges that fact
Bears are reported to smell 4 to 600 times better than a good dog!
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Old Native American proverb: When the leaf falls in the forest, the deer hears it, the sheep sees it, and the bear smells it.
I have an older book of wildlife photography that includes a chapter on bears. The photographer, in one instance, spent a good deal of time observing a barren ground grizzly mother and her two cubs. From a distance, of course. He relates how it took him a few weeks with them to begin to realize that momma bear was absolutely blind. Didn't seem to matter much to her - she got along fine on scent and sound.