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423: No Such Thing As A Seminole Sorting Hat

No Such Thing As A Fish

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Can Cats Use Their Whiskers to Hunt Fish?

Seals have 200 nerve endings on their whiskers. They can tell if a fish has gone past 30 seconds ago, by the vibration in the water where it was. And they can also do this with their eyebrows - so they can hunt fish with their eyebrows. That's also why old men are so good at fishis n ai e. Alex milne is a sensory biologist specializing in pinnaped whiskers. He says seal whiskers are curly like sea lions and walrusses enstead of te other pinapeds.

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