Usually means: Sensitive whiskers for tactile navigation.
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(Note: See vibrissa as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (vibrissa)

noun:  Any of the tactile whiskers on the nose of an animal such as a cat.
noun:  Any similar feather near the mouth of some birds.
noun:  (anatomy, in the plural) The thick hairs found inside the nostrils of humans and other mammals.
▸ Also see vibrissa


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