Elephant seal whiskers sensing prey with bioluminescence (IMAGE)

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Elephant seal whiskers sensing prey with bioluminescence

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Researchers from Japan studied the sensor function of elephant seal whiskers in hunting.

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Taiki Adachi et al. (2022)

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