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Sveta_85 [38]
3 years ago
13

Find the sensory hair ( vibrissae) around the mouth, cheeks. what do you think these are used for?

Biology
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lawyer [7]3 years ago
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Vibrissae, more commonly known as whiskers, are sensory hair that generally have a tactile sense, which is equivalent to skin. They grow on most mammals except monotremes (duck-billed platypus and echidnas) and humans, though humans still have remnants of the muscles once associated with vibrissae in their upper lips. Vibrissae serve a number of purposes: such as sense of touch; detection of danger, air and water currents, and movements of other animals; and the locating of food.

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