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Seal and Sea lion Whiskers Detect Slips of Vortices Similar as Rats Sense Textures

Scientific reports, 2019-09, Vol.9 (1), p.12808-15, Article 12808 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2019. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License. ;The Author(s) 2019 ;ISSN: 2045-2322 ;EISSN: 2045-2322 ;DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-49243-5 ;PMID: 31488868

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  • Title:
    Seal and Sea lion Whiskers Detect Slips of Vortices Similar as Rats Sense Textures
  • Author: Muthuramalingam, Muthukumar ; Bruecker, Christoph
  • Subjects: Animals ; Hunting ; Hydrodynamics ; Mechanical properties ; Models, Anatomic ; Motion ; Pinnipedia ; Prey ; Rats ; Sea Lions - physiology ; Species Specificity ; Touch - physiology ; Vibration ; Vibrissae - physiology ; Vortices
  • Is Part Of: Scientific reports, 2019-09, Vol.9 (1), p.12808-15, Article 12808
  • Description: Pinnipeds like seals and sea lions use their whiskers to hunt their prey in dark and turbid situations. There is currently no theoretical model or hypothesis to explain the interaction between whiskers and hydrodynamic fish trails. The current study, however, provides a theoretical and experimental insight into the mechanism behind the detection of the Strouhal frequency from a Von-Karman vortex street, similar to that of the inverted hydrodynamic fish trail. Herein the flow around a 3D printed sea lion head, with integrated whiskers of comparable geometry and material properties to a real seal lion, is investigated when exposed to vortex streets generated by cylindrical bluff bodies. The whiskers respond to the vortices with a jerky motion, analogous to the stick-slip response of rat whiskers; this motion is found to be the time derivative of the Gaussian function. Compared to the displacement response, the time-derivative of the whisker response decodes the Strouhal frequency of the Von-Karman wake, which improves the sensing efficiency in noisy environments. The study hypothesizes that the time derivative of the whisker bending moment is the best physical variable that can be used as the input to the pinnipeds neural system.
  • Publisher: England: Nature Publishing Group
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 2045-2322
    EISSN: 2045-2322
    DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-49243-5
    PMID: 31488868
  • Source: MEDLINE
    PubMed Central
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