The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers interesting and creative leitmotif for the reader's enjoyment" The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers is the 29th book in "The Cat Who" series. It was released in 2007 and is written by Lilian Jackson Braun. The Old Hulk, being developed for a senior center, mysteriously burns to the ground. Meanwhile, a young woman dies from a bee sting—or could it have been murder? Qwill's lady friend, Polly Duncan, goes to Paris and decides to stay there. Later, Qwill's apple barn residence is burned by fire. The author, Lilian Jackson Braun, died June 4, 2011
Whiskers benefits are that it provides more degrees of freedom for sensor positioning, that it allows the animal to sample a larger volume of space with a given density of whiskers, and that it allows control over the velocity with which the whiskers contact surfaces." Animals that do not whisk, but have motile whiskers, presumably also gain some advantage from the investment in musculature. Dorothy Souza, in her book "Look What Whiskers Can Do" reports some whisker movement during prey capture (in cats, in this case): "Whiskers bend forward as the cat pounces. Teeth grasp the mouse tightly around its neck.