Welcome to Fast Facts with Reasons for Hope!
I’m Carl Kerby, and I can “bearly” (get it?) wait to tell you about today’s creature … the Brown Bear!
While known for its size and aggression, this bear also has another super strength … it’s sniffer.
Since a bear’s nose is up to 9 inches long, they have hundreds of smell receptors and tiny muscles to let them sniff around with. In fact, they can detect a dead animal 20 miles away upwind … so … just so you know … he can smell your campfire too!
This sense of smell is 7 times better than the detective blood hound … and 2,000 times better than ours. And even though their brain is smaller, their olfactory bulb, or sniffer brain, is 5 times larger than ours.
God designed these creatures with super smellers so that they can expend less energy hunting, but instead know exactly where to go as they forage for food before winter. That, my friends, was no accident!
Join us again next time as we check in on Mama Bear! Until then, stay bold!
Carl Kerby is the founder of Reasons for Hope and co-creator of the DeBunked apologetic video series. His radio feature, Fast Facts, is heard weekly on VCY America, Saturdays at 9:25 AM Central.
