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= July 12 =

Use for transplants of Human equivalent of Nerves used to move ears in other animals?
I'm trying to remember a piece of trivia that I was once told. It was that for transplants to fix areas where nerves had been damaged that a source of the same body transplants were nerves on the side of the head that in other animals like cats are used to move the ears. Humans have the nerves, they just don't do anything. Is this (or something close to it) correct?Naraht (talk) 12:07, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
 * thanks to your question I just discovered that Nerve transplant is actually a thing Gem fr (talk) 12:47, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
 * The nerve concerned may be the Auricular branch of vagus nerve that supplies the Posterior auricular muscle responsible for the ancient vestigial (in humans) pinna orienting reflex. DroneB (talk) 00:53, 13 July 2019 (UTC)