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Tactile Sense

Ultra-sensitive whiskers, sensory tentacles, or specialized touch receptors detecting microscopic vibrations and currents.

4 creatures with this trait
Namib golden mole, a smooth sand-coloured ball of fur with no visible eyes, on red dune sand

Golden Mole

Eremitalpa granti

The sand-swimmer with no visible eyes, and a middle-ear bone denser than any other land mammal's on record.

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▸ Lee "Scratch" Perry
Spotted harbor seal hauled out on a sandstone ledge beside a clear tide pool

Harbor Seal

Phoca vitulina

Whiskers that detect a swimming fish's wake, a heart rate that can drop to three or four beats a minute on a dive, and the widest range of any seal on Earth.

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▸ Washed Out
Star-nosed mole with its ring of fleshy pink nasal rays spread, broad clawed forefeet on either side

Star-Nosed Mole

Condylura cristata

A semi-aquatic mole armed with twenty-two fleshy sensory tentacles that can identify and eat a piece of prey in as little as 120 milliseconds.

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▸ Covet
Walrus with mouth open wide, displaying its full pair of long tusks

Walrus

Odobenus rosmarus

Tusks up to three feet long, hundreds of sensitive whiskers, and the bulk of the third-largest pinniped.

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▸ Wardruna