Whiskers
Whiskers or vibrissae (/vaɪˈbrɪsi/; singular: vibrissa; /vaɪˈbrɪsə/) are a type of mammalian hair that are typically characterised, anatomically, by their large size, large and well-innervated hair follicle and by having an identifiable representation in the somatosensory cortex of the brain.
They are specialised for tactile sensing (other types of hair operate as more crude tactile sensors). Vibrissae grow in various places on most mammals, including all primates except humans.
In medicine, the term vibrissae also refers to the thick hairs found inside human nostrils.
Anatomy
Vibrissal groups
Vibrissae (derived from the Latin "vibrio" meaning to vibrate) typically grow in groups in different locations on an animal. These groups are relatively well conserved across land mammals, and somewhat less well conserved between land and marine mammals (though commonalities are certainly present). Species-specific differences are also found. Vibrissae of different groups may vary in their anatomical parameters and in their operation, and it is generally assumed that they serve different purposes in accordance with their different locations on the body.
Podcasts:
Whiskers
ALBUMS
- The Drawl released: 2014
- Zero Stories released: 2013
- Don't released: 2012
- The Human Piano: Live released: 2011
- Katzenklavier released: 2011
- The Final Sound released: 2010
- Whiskers released: 2009
- The End released: 2008
- Subliminal Messaging released: 2008
Subliminal Messaging
Released 2008- Intro (Programming)
- Believable
- Me Over My Ass at the Bottom of the Ocean
- I Want Pluto to Be a Planet Again
- Pizza of Justice
- Bent Reality
- This Is the Sound of One Hand Clapping
- That
- Exceed
- The Rest Of
- Oldboy
- Interlude
- +-=
- Mixed Emotions
- Chiken Buyon
- Forceful Excursion
- Autumn
- Just Say Yes
- Bateman
- Better Than That
- The Tetris Effect
- Outro/Grand Finale/Encore
Whiskers
ALBUMS
- Whiskers released: 2012
Whiskers
by: Boy Least Likely ToSitting on a broken dream
And memories are what might have been
Biscuit crumbs and bird seed in his
Whiskers, Whiskers, Whiskers
Even though he never went to war
He still felt something worth fighting for
But no one else ever cared as much as
Whiskers, Whiskers, Whiskers
Whiskers, Whiskers, Whiskers
He sits in the moonlight
On top of the hill
Playing a penny whistle
And picking thistles out of his kilt
He rubs his paws together
And it begins to snow
As he counts up all the Christmas lights
In the village down below
He sits around the campfire
And licks at his wounds
Staring sadly back
At his reflection in a spoon
We used to want the same things
When we were growing up
But somewhere along the way
I started hoping for too much
I found his little plastic shield
Chewed up on the battlefield
And I knew then I'd never make a friend again like
Whiskers, Whiskers, Whiskers
Whiskers, Whiskers, Whiskers
Whiskers, Whiskers, Whiskers
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