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Is That How Robin Studies Other Types of Whiskers?
Evolution did away with whiskers for humans, different animals evolved different kinds of whiskers. If at home you've got a guinea pig, you can see that they have quite a lot of whiskers - perhaps i they're quite small compared to their body. For azity have something like a mouse or a rat or a humpster, they ought to have enormous whiskers compared to the size of them. And it seems like the best whiskered animals sa the ones with the longest whiskers, and the most whiskers, usually have this very regular organization of whiskers which is weird as well.
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