Whiskers are specifically tuned sensory equipment that guide a cat through daily functions. These specialized hairs aid vision and help a kitty navigate his environment, providing additional sensory input, much like antennae on insects.
A cat's whiskers are essential tools for sensing the world around them - like a blind person's cane - whiskers are highly sensitive and vibrate in the air to give the cat detailed information about movements in the air and objects around them. This helps with hunting and navigating their way around, and also protects their faces eg from heat sources :)
Balance & to measure if they can fit thru small spaces. They typically don't try to squeeze thru a tiny space if it's narrower than their whiskers. Cats use their whiskers for moving the air around their noses, to help them smell the odors surrounding them
They are used for seeing how wide a gap is so that they can get their whole body through
normaly of the time whiskers are used for seeing if they can fit into small places if there whiskers bend up to there face then they know they probably wont fit.
They use it to try to fit into spaces like for (Example) there's a brick wall the cat's whiskers try to see if he/she can fit though the brick wall.
Cats whiskers are used to let the cat know if they will fit through a area. If a cats whiskers are cut it throws off their sense of balance also.
Cats have whiskers.
Same as they do for all cats. Whiskers are how they balance
cats and dogs look different cause cats have long whiskers and dogs have short whiskers.
Whiskers. Cats haves whiskers on their cheeks, chin, the backs of their front legs and over their eyes! Another word for whiskers is vibrissa.
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Yes, squirrels do have whiskers, but they are very fine.
Most cats have 24 whiskers on each side, placed in five very straight rows of varying length. Not all the whiskers may be the same length or in the same growing phase, however! They also have eyebrow whiskers, whiskers at the corners of their jaws and whiskers on their elbows.
Whiskers.
They might think that it is play or they are bothered.
This is a strange question. If this is a legitimate question, the answer is NO. I have never seen my sand cats (felis margarita) eat whiskers.
No. Dogs, like horses, cats (and many other felines), etc., use their whiskers as receptors. I disagree with trimming horse whiskers because of this. They are natural, and are used to feel around them subtlely. - Kate