Covering diverse species from garter snakes to Komodo dragons, this book delves into the
evolutionary origins and fascinating details of the mysterious social lives of reptiles. Reptiles …

Sensory information drives the ecology and behaviour of animals, and some animals are
able to detect environmental cues unavailable to us. For example, rattlesnakes use infrared …

Pit vipers detect infrared radiation by means of temperature contrasts created on their pit
organ membranes. Signals from pit organs integrate with visual signals in the optic tectum …

Abstract The Morrison Formation of the Late Jurassic Period is characterized by its diverse
assemblage of sauropods, several species of which reached the size of modern cetaceans …

Image fusion is a key technology in the field of digital image processing. In the present study,
an effect-based pseudo color fusion model of infrared and visible images based on the …

Highlights•Rattlesnakes can see both infrared (IR) and visible light.•We tested whether
snakes use thermal vision to find warm bushes at night.•We blocked IR organs and/or eyes …

The rapid strike of snakes has long been of interest in terms of mechanical performance.
Recently, several nonvenomous taxa have been found to strike with the same incredible …

Among various environmental factors, temperature has been considered a main determinant
of outcomes of predator–prey interactions involving ectotherms. Although numerous studies …

Rattlesnakes use infrared radiation to detect prey animals such as small mammals and
lizards. Because ectotherm locomotor performance depends on temperature, rattlesnakes …

The pit organ defining pit vipers (Crotalinae) contains a membrane covered with
temperature receptors that detect thermal radiation from environmental surfaces …