Musée d’Histoire Naturelle

The Hyenas
Olfaction plays an important role in the social life of the clan. Hyenas have a keen sense of smell and often engage in scent marking. Each clan seems to have a olfactory signature unique124 and hyenas in the wild mark the boundaries of their territories with secretions from their scent glands.

In the Skin of the Elephant
It is the mammal with the most developed sense of smell.
With increasingly low doses of scents, the young visitors were able to discover the threshold of perception of their own sense of smell compared to that of an elephant by means of a sniff.

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