The tactile corpuscles of Grandry or Grandry corpuscles are mechanoreceptors found in the beak skin and oral mucosa of aquatic birds. They were first described...

[citation needed] Pacinian corpuscles are larger and fewer in number than Meissner's corpuscles, Merkel cells and Ruffini's corpuscles. They may measure up...

detect prey. It is one of the few species of mammals to use electroreception. The beaks of aquatic birds contain Grandry corpuscles, which assist in velocity...