Receptors that monitor stretch in the articular capsules that enclose synovial joints; they are proprioceptors, mechanoreceptors, and nociceptors; contains at least four receptor types (1) Lamellar Corpuscles, (2) Bulbous Corpuscles, (3) Free Nerve Endings, and (4) Receptors resembling Tendon Organs; together they provide information on joint position and motion.
Puffins are built for swimming underwater rather than for flying, and at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, a mutli-level seabird display allows visitors to watch puffins and other sea birds dive to the bottom of the enclosure for food. When they dive, puffins flap their wings through the water, appearing to fly.
puffins on the westman islands on the westman islands which hold about half of all icelandic puffins the puffins are both harvested and rescued puffins have been a vital source of food through the centuries for icelanders in the islands however they are harvested sustainablyceland is home to one of the world s largest colonies of puffins over half of the world s population of the atlantic puffin breeds in iceland somewhere between 3 4 million pairs each year