Most mammals have whiskers; however, nearly everything we know about whiskers derives
from just a handful of species, including laboratory rats Rattus norvegicus and mice Mus …

Opossums are the most diverse and ecologically important group of New World marsupials,
although only the Virginia opossum is familiar to North American residents. In fact, many …

Background Previous studies have demonstrated that analysing whisker movements and
locomotion allows us to quantify the behavioural consequences of sensory, motor and …

In mammals, the infraorbital canal provides a passage for the infraorbital ramus of the
maxillary branch of the trigeminal nerve. The infraorbital nerve ensures tactile sensitivity of …

Animals employ active touch to optimize the acuity of their tactile sensors. Prior experimental
results and models lead to the hypothesis that sensory inputs are used in a recurrent …

All small mammals have prominent facial whiskers that they employ as tactile sensors to
guide navigation and foraging in complex habitats. Nocturnal, arboreal mammals tend to …

The survival of many animals depends in part on their ability to sense the flow of the
surrounding fluid medium. To date, however, little is known about how terrestrial mammals …

There are remarkable similarities between the brains of mammals and birds in terms of
microcircuit architecture, despite obvious differences in gross morphology and development …

Chordates comprise lampreys, hagfishes, jawed fishes, and tetrapods, plus a variety of more
unfamiliar and crucially important non-vertebrate animal lineages, such as lancelets and sea …

While most mammals have whiskers, some tactile specialists—mainly small, nocturnal, and
arboreal species—can actively move their whiskers in a symmetrical, cyclic movement …