Complementing our impressive warrior night vision, we’ve got whiskers to help guide us when we’re moving around. I’ve seen some of the man humans with these mustaches hanging around on top of their lips, but there’s not any similarity at all to what we’ve got hooked on to the sides of our noses!
These impressive, movable, and flexible whisker devices are super responsive to touch and give us a huge advantage over the manly mustaches in terms of the sensing of our environment and navigating around. They provide up-to-the-second critical information on widths, gaps, boundaries, and locations. They can even make out air currents, which might provide clues as to the movements of other creatures in our vicinity, or information about the current or changing weather conditions. Yeah, Freddy the Weather Cat! I can give you an accurate five-day forecast by just...
Are you perhaps feeling a bit jealous again after hearing my description of these amazing things that we’ve got sticking out from our noses? I wouldn’t be surprised if you were, but there’s one important detail that I need to mention.
Taking into account our whiskers’ ultra sensitivity and fine-tuning, please don’t be playing around with them, flicking them with your fingers, pulling at them, or anything like that. That can be quite aggravating, and may even put us in a really bad mood.
In brief, go ahead and admire them, but don’t touch. We’d appreciate your self-control and showing of respect in that regard.