A team of neurobiologists and neuroscientists at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory has found that sub-orbital whiskers play a role in helping rats determine which direction air movement is coming from and to respond accordingly. In their paper published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, the group describes their study of rat whiskers.
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Source: Phys.org