ORIGINAL: firelt72
Turkeys can smell (poorly), but it is not a highly developed area for them. Deer need smell for their primary protective purposes and turkeys use eye sight and hearing as theirs. I would say very few land animals, if any can't smell some. It is just not sufficiant to pick us up in the woods like a deer can. JMHO. (I actually looked the answer up and found it on multiple web sites).
This has been the answer I have gotten from biologists as well.
Most of what interests me is that fact that some folks say ducks have a very good sense of smell. Personally I think that is a bit on the far fetched side, better than a humans perhaps, but certainly no where as good as most of the other land animals we hunt.
Vultures and buzzards, however, have a sense of smell that rivals or even exceeds that of a whitetail deer... not to mention eyes that are right up there with a turkey.
I'm sure turkeys can smell a bit, but not enough to use their sense of smell as a warning system for hunters.