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Mention the most important features of nervous system and sense organs in mammals.

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Nervous system and sense organs are well developed in mammals.
Mammals have a relatively large brain when compared to that of other animals in relation to body size.
The four optic lobes constitute corpora quadrigemina.
The two halves of cerebrum are connected by corpus callosum.
The central nervous system is enveloped by three meninges.
Eyes have movable eyelids with eye lashes.
External ear has a large pinna middle ear possesses three ear ossicles. They are malleus, incus and stapes, Cochlea of the internal ear is spirally coiled and bears the organ of corti which is the receptor of sound.
Skin is one of the sense organ.
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