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BookmarkEquilibrioception or sense of balance is one of the physiological senses.
It allows humans and animals to walk etc.
without falling.
Some animals are better in this than humans, for example allowing a cat (as a quadruped using its inner ear and tail) to walk on a thin fence..
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