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What animals
have fingerprints
like a human?
Koalas and primates have
fingerprints almost identical
to ours, with strikingly similar
whorls and ridges. Just like
humans, every fingerprint
has a unique pattern.
All the fingers of the human
hand and the entire palm
are covered in ridges.
SPECIAL SNIFFER Human
Scientists would struggle to
Animals with hairless snouts, distinguish human fingerprints
including dogs and cows, have from those of primates and koalas.
unique nose prints. In fact, new Primates, such as bonobos, have
computer software has been the same evolutionary history
developed to identify any dog as us, but the koala’s ridged
by its nose print. fingerprints developed to
grip onto eucalyptus trees
and grasp leaves to eat.
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