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The sense of smell that helps a lion is because it tracks his prey down.

The previous post is not exactly that helpful, for a start it is the lioness's that do the hunting around 85% of the time so 'he' wouldn't be tracking anything down.

A lion's sense of smell is around 14 times stronger than our own, and they have twice as many olfactory receptors.

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Lions are helped by their sense of smell because they use it to detect mates and track food. It is also used by cubs when they are recognizing their mother and by adult males who are trying to find rivals in their territory or who want to find a male to challenge from another pride.

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