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===Thermal vision=== {{main|Infrared sensing in snakes}} Some snakes can "see"<ref>{{cite journal | pmc = 2693128 | pmid=7256281 | volume=213 | issue=4509 | title=Integration of visual and infrared information in bimodal neurons in the rattlesnake optic tectum | year=1981 | journal=Science | pages=789β91 | last1 = Newman | first1 = EA | last2 = Hartline | first2 = PH | doi=10.1126/science.7256281| bibcode=1981Sci...213..789N }}</ref> radiant heat at [[wavelength]]s between 5 and 30 [[ΞΌm]] to a degree of accuracy such that a blind [[rattlesnake]] can target vulnerable body parts of the prey at which it strikes,<ref name="Kardong-1991">{{cite journal | last1 = Kardong | first1 = KV | last2 = Mackessy | first2 = SP | year = 1991 | title = The strike behavior of a congenitally blind rattlesnake | journal = Journal of Herpetology | volume = 25 | issue = 2| pages = 208β211 | doi=10.2307/1564650| jstor = 1564650 }}</ref> and other snakes with the organ may detect warm bodies from a meter away.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1038/news.2010.122 |title=Snake infrared detection unravelled |author=Fang, Janet |journal=Nature News|date=14 March 2010 }}</ref> It may also be used in [[thermoregulation]] and [[predator]] detection.<ref name="Krochmal-2004">{{cite journal|last=Krochmal|first=Aaron R.|author2=George S. Bakken |author3=Travis J. LaDuc |title=Heat in evolution's kitchen: evolutionary perspectives on the functions and origin of the facial pit of pitvipers (Viperidae: Crotalinae)|journal=Journal of Experimental Biology |date=15 November 2004|volume=207|pages=4231β4238|doi=10.1242/jeb.01278|pmid=15531644|issue=Pt 24|doi-access=free|bibcode=2004JExpB.207.4231K }}</ref><ref name="Gre92">Greene HW. (1992). "The ecological and behavioral context for pitviper evolution", in Campbell JA, Brodie ED Jr. ''Biology of the Pitvipers''. Texas: Selva. {{ISBN|0-9630537-0-1}}.</ref>
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