Most of the Wiggly Bits on animals are clearly electroreceptors. This includes the majority of Crests, Antlers, Whiskers, Horns and Ossicones.ieadxadmtailohraaxrlcoealponiefeklmrilnddaaallaoicyiskFull Discussion: >>>/sci/16855130Info Dump: https://pastebin.com/veE2CikQShow me your wiggly bits and I will rate them
Terrestrial electroeception is already confirmed in treehoppers and various insects. Negatively charged keratin whiskers are perfect antenna for detecting low energy flux. Velvet on antlers is extremely highly innervated. Both whiskers and antlers are connected to the trigeminal nerve, the same as the electric lateral line in fish. Consult the pastebin for details https://pastebin.com/veE2CikQ
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Can anyone explain what these are for?
>>5077286>bulbunderwater electroreceptors>comb, snood, waddlesexual display and thermoregulation>dewlapthermoregulationthe truth might still be out there though
>>5077305Thermoregulation does not make sense when it's in direct sunlight, and has poor surface area to volume ratio. Sexual display must be correlated with enhanced fitness and is usually a visualization of a trait that is hard to see otherwise, like bright colors for chemical production or genetic fidelity. The dewlap is a poor display of its dense costly nerves. Why are all display structures so full of nerves?
>>5077305Dewlap for thermoregulation makes even less sense since moose need to stay warm in cold winters, not stay cool in hot summers. Increased surface area decreases heat retention.
>>5077333And it's covered in fur
>>5077332>correlated with enhanced fitnessnot really, you just have to look better, not be better
>>5077430That doesn't work long term or the lineage will go extinct. Specific attraction becomes prominent because those individuals don't die. Females don't inherently know what's genetically good but their offspring only survive if they choose correctly, so the attraction is passed on. Attraction is evolved not random. All of the mysterious ways women act is just testing if you're going to be a good father plain and simple.
>>5077531At least humans are testing for father quality. Obviously not all animals select for the same trait. And there is also the second evolutionary drive just to get high quality genes and then cuck someone but that's also not random it's for the survival of your children
>>5077533Women evolve to avoid mates who trick them with facades of success
>>5077531no because thats not how intraspecies conflict works, youre never really tested for being good only looking good, if you look good but are bad you can seal the deal because they think youre good, but if you are good but look bad theyre not going to give you the time of day,>>5077533lolno, psychopathy is selected trait in humans, because its derived from cavemen where your ability to cave someone skull in with your bare hands is the only things that matters, just look at all the women who simp for murders rather than the guy who feeds the homeless. primates are extremely violent when it comes to intraspecies conflict, most vertebrates dont really fight that much, its usually they just look better and conflict doesnt happen>>5077534and yet they still end up having their kids, so what does that tell you
>>5077286its loose skin that wont kill them if it comes off when a predator is attacking themfor the moose at least
