Sense organs

The organs of the body that serve as sensors for taste, smell, sound and the things we see and touch are known as our sense organs. Humans are highly sensitive to stimuli in their surroundings and their nervous systems are constantly picking up these stimuli and interpreting them. The organs involved in the reception and transmission of these stimuli are the tongue, the nose, the ears, the eyes and the skin. These organs are covered with numerous sensory receptors, structures that can detect a specific type of stimulus and inform the body of its internal state as well as its external environment.

Some animals have different sensory organs that enable them, for example, to find their way in the dark. Cats' whiskers enable them to judge variations in the air and hence to detect any object or person close to them.