Can bears smell food in your car?

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asked Jun 3, 2019 in Other-Environment by geauga (310 points)
Can bears smell food in your car?

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answered Jun 4, 2019 by Grahlu (51,270 points)
Bears are very good at smelling things and smelling food inside your car so you should hide the food inside your cars trunk or put the food out of sight of the bear or move it into a camper or cabin if you're staying in one.

Do not keep food inside your tent when you're around bears because they can easily smell the food and come into your tent and potentially harm you for the food.

Out of all the animals in the world bears have the best sense of smell.

Bears can smell things up to 2,100 times better than us humans so while you may not be able to smell the food from your car a bear can likely smell that food from a further distance.

So always put food up away from bears or hide the food so the bear doesn't see it even if they smell it.

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