11 Animals That Have a Sixth Sense!

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Aristotle’s theory on senses

Aristotle was the first to assign humans with 5 traditional senses viz. sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell, but nowadays several animals also possess additional perceptive abilities

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Spiders

It possesses unique organs called slit sensilla that can judge size, and weight of prey and sense minute mechanical strains on their exoskeleton

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Comb Jellies

It has sensory receptors called statocysts that allow them to balance themselves and Ocelli that allow this eyeless animals to sense light and dark without creating a complex image

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Pigeons

Its sixth sense is called magnetoreception viz. using beak structures for precise navigation

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Dolphins

It uses echolocation as its sixth sense to create 3D Maps with sound waves for hunting and socializing

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Sharks

Its sixth sense is known as Electroreception which is the ability to detect electrical fields for efficient predatory skills

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Salmon

this animal uses magnetoreception to find home rivers and to recognize scents for navigation

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Bats

Echolocation, geomagnetic sense, and polarization vision are used by bats to navigate and sense surroundings

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Mantis Shrimp

It has unique sense related to polarization that is used to detect and communicate with other mantis shrimp using linear polarized light, even in ultraviolet and green wavelengths

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Weather Loaches or Weatherfish

It can detect pressure changes including buoyancy and weather prediction

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Platypus

It has 40,000 electroreceptor cells in its bill, used by it for precise navigation

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Sea Turtles

It can navigate with its geomagnetic sense and biological clock or "third eye" sense, allowing them to navigate back to their home

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