Whiskers: Difference between revisions

The last common ancestor of all extant mammals had vibrissae.<ref name="J.Exp.Bio">{{cite journal |last1=Grant |first1=Robyn A. |last2=Haidarliu |first2=Sebastian |last3=Kennerley |first3=Natalie J. |last4=Prescott |first4=Tony J. |title=The evolution of active vibrissal sensing in mammals: evidence from vibrissal musculature and function in the marsupial opossum Monodelphis domestica |journal=Journal of Experimental Biology |date=1 January 2013 |volume=216 |issue=Pt 18 |pages=3483–3494 |doi=10.1242/jeb.087452|pmid=23737559 |s2cid=207170888 |url=http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/107029/1/Journal%20of%20Experimental%20Biology%202013%20Grant.pdf }}</ref> All other extant mammal species besides great apeshumans retain the same ancestral layout of the whiskers along with the special facial muscles that move them.<ref name="ProcRoySoc"/>