BHB gives info on some scaleless concerns

[Pythonfriend]

Do you have access to any of the college libraries? It would be great if you can peruse the entire article. The paper goes more in depth on the studied functions of micropits. And, the micropits don't just receive signals from the pit holes either as they are found all over the head and body of the boid.

Finding the head in the dark tells us a lot about the infrared image the snake is receiving as striking in the general direction of the rat may not tell you what the snake "sees" but more what the snake hears/feels. So, if it can still target the head of the rat with that thin beta-keratin layer over the pit membrane, then it's an indicator that the absence of the visually-normal pit holes is not in any way providing a handicap.

I almost feel a little bad when i have to crush an argument so cruelly. But then, its how we learn... happens to me as well.

one fact blows your argument out of the water. while it is true that in living rhodents the head is much warmer than the rest of the body, and gives off more heat, that is not true for frozen thawed rats. and BPs manage to find the head on a frozen thawed. and a frozen thawed is by the very fact of getting killed, then frozen, then thawed, totally uniform in temperature. so it cannot be true.

then, your other comment.... yeah, they function through heat. heat moves at a certain velocity through solid materials. so a large object will reach thermal equilibrium slower than a small one. like, in a proper heat pit, some areas can be warmer than others because the long distances cause heatr transfer to be slow. now listen: on the nanoscale that all goes to hell because the pits the article describes will reach thermal equilibrium around 3000 times faster. getting a differentiated signal would require the receptors and neurons and the BPs brain to be 3000 times faster. (and i already mentioned that the geometry of these small things just is not right).

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