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Outside of primates, what is the only other animal to have individual fingerprints?

Question #149610. Asked by BigTriviaDawg.
Last updated Aug 08 2023.
Originally posted Aug 08 2023 7:57 PM.

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Koalas, though no one is quite sure why. Nor is there agreement on the benefit of fingerprints.
Unsurprisingly, our closest relatives, the great apes, also have fingerprints.

Perhaps more surprisingly, so does the koala. In an example of convergent evolution, koalas have fingerprints that are virtually indistinguishable from ours, even though our last common ancestor lived more than 100 million years ago. Like human prints, each individual koala's fingerprint has a unique pattern.
link https://www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg24933253-300-do-other-animals-have-fingerprints-and-what-purpose-do-they-serve/

link https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/koala-fingerprints/

Response last updated by psnz on Aug 08 2023.
Aug 08 2023, 8:01 PM
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