Do animals have a sense of taste? Detailed answer

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Do animals have a sense of taste?

Our sense of taste is a source of great pleasure. It makes it possible to enjoy food. But this feeling is given to us not only for a pleasant sensation, but also for protection. It often prevents us from eating food that can be dangerous to our body.

What is the sense of taste? This is the ability to feel the collision of molecules. These moving particles irritate the taste nerve, and we get a signal that is perceived as a particular taste. Only liquid substances, in which the molecules move more or less freely, can give us taste sensations. A piece of glass, for example, has no taste for us. Anything that makes the molecules move faster enhances the taste. This is why hot tastes are more intense than cold ones.

The taste-sensitive nerves are somewhat similar to the kidneys. They have the ability to evoke the sensation we call taste.

These kidney-shaped organs are located in humans and developed animals on the tongue. But their number in each species is very different. By the way, the man is a pretty average taster. It only has 3 taste buds. A whale that swallows a lot of fish without even chewing has only a few or none at all.

A pig, oddly enough, is more taste-sensitive than a person: it has 5500 taste organs. A cow has 35 of them, and an antelope has more than 000! So not only do animals have a sense of taste, but many of them are much better tasters than humans.

Marine animals are often covered in taste buds on the outside. Fish, for example, feel the taste of the entire surface of the body. But such creatures as flies and butterflies can "taste" with their paws.

Snakes and lizards use language for this purpose, but not quite the way we do. They seem to shoot with the tip of the tongue, which catches small particles of food. These particles are delivered with the help of the tongue to a special organ in the upper part of the mouth, which tastes and smells food.

Author: Likum A.

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