From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   Michael R N Dolbear wrote:   
   > "Dorothy J Heydt"  wrote   
   >   
   >> Is someone writing about the vibrissae of an aileuromorph?   
   >> Please send a link, if so.   
   >   
   > The best Amazon can find is the facsimile reprint "The Functions Of The   
   > Vibrissae In The Behavior Of The White Rat (1912) "   
   >   
   > All listed seem to be non-fiction.   
      
   If you cut the rat's whiskers off, he can't find his way through a   
   maze.   
      
   If you cut the cat's whiskers off, he can't locate a victim's neck in   
   the dark to kill it with a bite.   
      
   That is the importance of the vibrissae, whiskers that function as   
   sensory organs.   
      
   Cats score very badly in maze work anyhow.  Maze work is how many   
   scientists define the intelligence of animals.   
      
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