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Rats

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Field guideWhy mammals have whiskersA whisker is a lever seated in a specialized, nerve-rich follicle. Contact or fluid motion bends the shaft and stimulates receptors at its base; the nervous system combines that signal with the whisker’s position and the animal’s own movement to infer what is nearby.