The answer is more complicated and remarkable than that .Apart from obvious feelers cats whiskers also operate as a ''air-current detectors''.What the h*ck is that you say .Well im about to explain.
As the cat moves along in the dark (cats might have excellent vision but in heavy dark they would struggle too without these) it needs to manoeuvre past solid objects without touching them.
Each solid object it approaches causes slight disturbance in air and the cats whiskers are so amazingly sensitive that they can read(feel) these air changes and respond to the presence of solid obstacle even without touching them.
The whiskers are especially important when cat hunts at night.
So you ask what would happened if cat did not had a whiskers ?
Well apart from obvious look it would loose many senses like the most important mis-judging distances ,detecting movement in dark places and many more...
Apparently whiskers are technically called vibrissae and cat has few of these on each side of the cheeks.but did you know where else ??
Well apparently over the eyes on chin and surprisingly wait for it also on ...back of the front legs ...what??Yeah i would not ever think of that.
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