Artificial whisker reveals source of harbor seal's uncanny prey-sensing ability
Thursday, October 15, 2015 - 14:30
in Biology & Nature
Harbor seals have an amazingly fine-tuned sense for detecting prey, as marine biologists have noted for years. Even when blindfolded, trained seals are able to chase the precise path of an object that swam by 30 seconds earlier. Scientists have suspected that the seal's laser-like tracking ability is due in part to its antennae-like whiskers.