#CHIMPANZEE WITHOUT HAIR FREE#

The human brain devotes relatively huge portions of itself to sensing and processing touch.Ĭertain areas of the body, like fingertips, lips and genitals have much greater sensitivity to touch than other areas like the back or legs. Humans used to have whiskers too (about 800 000 years ago we lost the DNA for whiskers), but have now largely integrated the function performed by whiskers into their brains, specifically into their somatosensory cortex. In general, animals use whiskers to help them ‘see’ the world, navigate it and identify features. These are used specifically for object recognition, whether it’s your rat’s favourite toy or your hand. Short whiskers are microvibrissae, and they cannot be moved voluntarily. Animals use these to sweep areas (called whisking) to navigate spaces and generally feel the world. Long whiskers are macrovibrissae and can be moved voluntarily. You may have noticed when looking at your cat that there are 2 kinds of whiskers, long and short. Whisker follicles are much deeper than hair follicles and are surrounded by pockets of blood that amplify vibrations to better communicate information to the nerve cells beside the follicles. Whiskers are vibrissae, keratin filaments that grow out of different follicles than hair. So why don’t Homo sapiens have whiskers like other simians? To answer that, let me explain first what whiskers do, besides look adorable. If the content contained herein violates any of your rights, including those of copyright, and/or violates any the above mentioned factors, you are requested to immediately notify us using via the following email address operanews-external(at)opera.Humans might not have hair as thick as chimpanzees covering their body, but our arm, leg and eyebrow hair all serves as reminders of our primate ancestry. Opera News furthermore does not condone the use of our platform for the purposes encouraging/endorsing hate speech, violation of human rights and/or utterances of a defamatory nature. Opera News does not consent to nor does it condone the posting of any content that violates the rights (including the copyrights) of any third party, nor content that may malign, inter alia, any religion, ethnic group, organization, gender, company, or individual.

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#CHIMPANZEE WITHOUT HAIR FREE#

Opera News is a free to use platform and the views and opinions expressed herein are solely those of the author and do not represent, reflect or express the views of Opera News. It therefore means that one of the foregoing factors including distress must have caused the hair to fall out of this chimpanzee.Ĭontent created and supplied by: AppleStar (via Opera Atopic dermatitis and infestation by parasites could cause Alopecia. Biological dysfunctions, such as mineral and vitamin imbalances.ħ. The question again is, what could possibly cause the disease? According to the works of Melinda A Novak and Jerrold S Meyer published in Comparative Medicine, factors responsible for Alopecia are as follows:ģ. What is Alopecia Arteta? According to studies, it is an autoimmune disease in which cells in your immune system mistakenly attacks your hair follicles, thereby leaving you bald. Though I used to think that it is only human beings that suffer total baldness. I was extremely curious to know what possibly cause the total loss of hair, I was made to known that the Chimpanzee is suffering from Alopecia arteta. It means that when there is too much cold or heat in the environment, the chimpanzee would feel it more than others with hair. I really had an extreme compassion on the poor animal because of what it might be passing through. It was on my Uncle's phone that I saw this Chimpanzee without hair.