To Follow the Wind, Rats Use their Whiskers (3 of 8) (IMAGE)

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To Follow the Wind, Rats Use their Whiskers (3 of 8)

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A photo of a rat sniffing the air, close up. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 26, 2016, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by Y.S.W. Yu at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and colleagues was titled, "Whiskers aid anemotaxis in rats."

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Yan S. W. Yu, Matthew M. Graff, Chris S. Bresee, Yan B. Man, Mitra J. Z. Hartmann (2016) Whiskers aid anemotaxis in rats, <em>Science Advances.</em>

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