Are your feet ticklish?
Why are feet more ticklish than the palm of your hands?
Do other animals have ticklish feet?
Is it true that there is/was an evolutionary benefit for having ticklish feet?
Are your feet ticklish?
Why are feet more ticklish than the palm of your hands?
Do other animals have ticklish feet?
Is it true that there is/was an evolutionary benefit for having ticklish feet?
Rabbits have ticklish feet, I do too. And dogs have ticklish paws too afaik
One is ticklish, other has no feeling. Tested my dog, his feet aren't ticklish at all.
Most nerves end in the feet, thus they are more sensitive. So, stay away from mine...pretty please.
Yeah, very ticklish. I hate getting tickled anywhere. :<
Yep, ridiculously ticklish.
Because hands are so used to touching and grasping things, rather than feet which only touch broadly and aren't used to stuff crawling on/poking them. Despite so, hands can still be relatively ticklish - try stroking the palm of your hand gently, it's a tickly feeling.
Animals with high functioning nervous systems can be the same, too, except they express it differently than us (rats actually do laugh when tickled though). I wouldn't say animals like insects are ticklish though.
Yes, there is certainly an evolutionary aspect to being ticklish. In the wild, if your feet were injured, then it'd be a death sentence because you couldn't run away from predators. It's also why we have ticklish bellies and armpits, because those areas tend to be vulnerable in combat and are close to vital organs. So you could say tickling is a defensive mechanism with a playful aspect to it.
Last edited by Fargus; 2013-01-21 at 09:26 PM. Reason: Answered last question
If I am caught off guard they can bother me and be ticklish. But rarely does my feet being tickle bother me.
I usually push people away before they can tickle me enough before it gets tickly
I have to be tickled for about 10 seconds before it has an effect on me, same goes with my feet.
CAUTION: If you start to tickle me, I'm NOT responsible for your injuries!
I'm very ticklish all over, so don't blame me if you get hurt. I defend myself
My feet aren't ticklish in the slightest. Always frustrates people trying to get a reaction out of me.
Yes I am and it depends who it is who's tickling me as to whether I enjoy it or not.
typically no, and people know not to touch me anyways.
My feet used to be very ticklish (armpits, sides and stomach, too, but not as much) for years. Now they get tickly very, very rarely and it's nowhere near how it was (same goes for sides/stomach/armpits - latter aren't ticklish at all anymore).
I don't know what happened. Can't say I'm missing the ticklishness, though.
As weird as this might sound... I'm very ticklish under my feet, but not on Wednesdays... :S