{"id":9925,"date":"2015-03-09T19:11:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T02:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=9925"},"modified":"2015-03-09T19:11:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T02:11:31","slug":"10-best-sniffers-in-the-animal-kingdom-humans-rank-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=9925","title":{"rendered":"10 Best Sniffers in the Animal Kingdom &#8211; Humans Rank 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/elephant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9928\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/elephant-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"elephant\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The elephant has the best sniffer in the animal kingdom, according to Discovery.com<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Guinea pigs, with 796 olfactory receptor (OR) genes, landed in the No. 10 spot, according to lead author Yoshihito Niimura of the University of Tokyo\u2019s Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, and colleagues Atsushi Matsui and Kazushige Touhara,&#8221; 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