Quote Originally Posted by simplechamp View Post
The latency period of adaptation for the pit organ takes 50-150ms to adjust? That's an average of 1/10th of a second. Wouldn't the snake adapt very fast to changes in temps in it's surroundings?
Yes, so if you stick a mouse right on it's nose then after about a tenth of a second it will adjust so that the temperature of the mouse is in fact the temperature of it's surroundings, essentially making the mouse invisible.