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12-23-10, 06:23 PM
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domi adsum
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Questionable Info.
 So I picked up this book at the used book store last weekend Nonvenomous Snakes : Ludwig Trutnau (Hardcover, 1986) - eBay (item 341401338081 end time Feb-04-35 06:48:01 PST) As I was paging through it, I stopped at the section on sensory organs. And I found this....
" Some snake families (boas and pit vipers) also have heat sensitive organs located in pit like depressions on the head which sense the body heat of warm -blooded animals........."
My first thought as I flipped to the fly leaf to see the publishing date was, Wow talk about reverse evolution and only 30 years! Then I saw it was originally published in German and thought it must have been a translation error.
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12-23-10, 07:23 PM
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Captain America
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Re: Questionable Info.
Ok i am lost?
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12-23-10, 07:37 PM
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Re: Questionable Info.
they do have heat pits??? what is the questionable part?
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12-23-10, 08:01 PM
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Re: Questionable Info.
Same response here??
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12-23-10, 09:35 PM
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The Scorpion Whisperer
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Re: Questionable Info.
What you think they DON'T?? Come on guy that is just silly. Of course they have pits.
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12-23-10, 10:09 PM
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Re: Questionable Info.
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12-23-10, 10:47 PM
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Re: Questionable Info.
hm...i have read that boas pits are primitive and far less receptive that that of pythons and vipers and is questionable in some species weather it even serves a purpose but they got them and i am unsure of the validity of the info
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12-23-10, 10:49 PM
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Re: Questionable Info.
^^^ either way they still have heat pits^^^^
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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. -John Lennon
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12-23-10, 11:06 PM
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Re: Questionable Info.
Aha.... now we are getting somewhere.....
Greg did boldface the word BOA and we all start thinking pythons...
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12-24-10, 01:19 AM
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Re: Questionable Info.
pit vipers, pythons and boas that live in trees have heat seeking capabilities. These animals have special pits around the top of their mouths that sense warm-blooded prey. It works a little like infrared technology. Some of these animals can even catch birds in flight. It is amazing.
Note that not all pythons and boas have pits. Boa constrictors, for example, don't have pits.
Most common snakes you'd find living in the wild in the US do not have pits. Only rattlesnakes and copperheads would have pits.
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12-24-10, 03:21 AM
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domi adsum
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Re: Questionable Info.
Imagine my befuddlement.....Boa's and vipers were the ONLY snakes listed as having heat pits. Leaving out, IMO the very obvious python.
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Thanks for reading, Greg
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12-24-10, 03:37 AM
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domi adsum
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Re: Questionable Info.
Quote:
Originally Posted by infernalis
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That there is a python....
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12-24-10, 08:06 AM
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Captain America
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Re: Questionable Info.
Quote:
Originally Posted by presspirate
Imagine my befuddlement.....Boa's and vipers were the ONLY snakes listed as having heat pits. Leaving out, IMO the very obvious python.
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Matter of fact all python except Woma and Blackhead have hit pit.
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12-24-10, 09:37 AM
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The Original Urban Legend
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Re: Questionable Info.
Some boas do have heat sensing pits- case in point, Corallus. But for the most part, the noticeable heat pits are on pythons.
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12-24-10, 12:05 PM
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Re: Questionable Info.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Will0W783
Some boas do have heat sensing pits- case in point, Corallus. But for the most part, the noticeable heat pits are on pythons.
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tree boas............
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