A seal’s whiskers help to create new sensors for vehicles Military researchers are studying the structure and principles of seal whiskers. Experts from the scientific laboratories of the research center of submarine warfare, the US Navy began studies of vibrissa pinnipeds — seals and walruses. As reported Military.com scientists believe that understanding the device working principle of the seal whiskers, with which they can feel a fish at quite a distance and even to determine its size, you can create new high-precision passive sensors for ships and submarines. Seals, the basis of the diet is fish, hunt it, using whiskers as a kind of sensor: mustache catch even slight movements of water, for example, occur when the fish is passing through the gills. Using the vibrissa seals and walruses can be hunted both day and night, and even in murky waters with almost zero visibility. The base of the vibrissa
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