BobRingReflections

I read a little about human and animal senses the other day, and discovered a lot of stuff I didn’t know.  So, that was my justification for doing some research and writing a blog on the subject.   After defining some terms, I will discuss human sensory systems , and then animal senses that humans have too, followed by special animal senses that human do not have , and then end with my reflections on what I learned.  I will list my principal sources at the end. A couple of definitions to start: 1) a  sensory system is a biological system used by humans and animals to gather information about the world through the detection of stimuli.  I will often use the word sense for short, implying the entire sensory system, 2) a receptor is a group of interrelated cells within the human body that respond to a specific stimulus, for example taste receptors on the tongue.  Cranial and spinal nerves transmit this sensory information to the brain where these signals are processed and interpr