What are whiskers on cats used for?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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 :)

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

They are used for seeing how wide a gap is so that they can get their whole body through

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

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.