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           evolved  to develop  this     can  also detect  atmospheric   animals make are enormous.
           character-first  is  mainly  for   electromagnetic  waves that   Animals  play  a  significant
           food gathering, secondly is for   indicate  thunderstorms.  role in the stability  of the
           ensuring the mating process,   These  abilities help  bees   environment,   ecosystem,
           and third is securing the health   in  navigating  flowers  and   and also our lives.  They
           of their eggs laid in pine trees.  determining  whether  a storm   are  excellent  companions
                                         is approaching.              especially the tiny mammals.
           8.  Cavefish (Sense of
             Hearing)                    10.  Spiders (Sensitive To   The importance of animals in
                                            Touch)                    general can be understood by
                                                                      the  simple  fact that  they  are
                                                                      the ones who have sustained
                                                                      our planet.  Our lives exist
                                                                      because  of animals. Animals
                                                                      outnumber  us today, too,
                                                                      and we are safe as long as it
                                                                      remains this way.
           This animal proves the saying
           “when  one  sense  is  weak,   Spiders are one of the very few   So, let’s love our animals and
           the other senses are further   animals with a hypersensitivity   return their contribution to us
           strengthened.  ” to be  true.   to touch. By having massive   by taking care of them.
           Cavefish  live  in  a  relatively   numbers of hairs (known as   ________________________
           pitch-black  environment,  so   trichobothria)  on their legs,   www.bioexplorer.net
           their  sense of sight  is nearly   they can detect and trace the
           functionless.     However,    origin of a vibration created by
           its sense of hearing  is      an object or another animal.
           substantially sensitive as it can
           detect even the slightest noise   11.  Mantis Shrimp               “If you have
           at 1 kHz (or even lower!). This   (Complex Visual                 knowledge, let
           ability  helps  the  cavefish  to   System)
           efficiently  locate  its  prey  and                             others light their
           filter out unnecessary noise in
           the surroundings.                                                  candles at it.”

           9.  Bees (Sense of Earth’s                                           _Margaret Fuller
             Magnetic Field)



                                         Mantis shrimps have 16             “It’s not enough to
                                         types of photoreceptors (light
                                         detectors)  that  can detect     love animals; we must
                                         visible  and  ultraviolet  (UV)    actively protect and
                                         light and are the only known     preserve them. It’s our
                                         animals  to see the  circularly   duty and responsibility
           Aside from  being  able  to   polarized  light!  Aside from
           produce  honey through the    that, they can sense light depth   as custodians of this
           pollination of flowers, did you   in one eye while independently        planet.”
           know that bees are incredibly   moving the other.
           hypersensitive that they can                                      _Daphine Sheldrick
           also sense the Earth’s magnetic   In the smooth running of our
           field?  Aside  from  that,  they   world, the contributions which
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