Trait CollectionSensory & Stealth
Infrared Vision
Facial pit organs equipped with thermal receptors that detect minute infrared heat signatures from warm-blooded prey.
5 creatures with this trait
Ball Python
Python regius
A generally calm python that wraps itself into a tight ball when threatened and can go weeks to months between meals.
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Common Vampire Bat
Desmodus rotundus
One of only three mammals that must feed on blood, it finds warm prey through heat-sensing pits on its face and crosses the ground on all fours to reach it.
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Cottonmouth
Agkistrodon piscivorus
A swamp pit viper that warns with a wide-open white mouth and hunts on land and in water.
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Timber Rattlesnake
Crotalus horridus
The big eastern pit viper that senses heat, waits in ambush and rattles a warning first.
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Western Diamondback Rattlesnake
Crotalus atrox
A desert pit viper with a heat-sensing pit on each side of its head. In one study, fasting snakes lost 30% of their body mass over 168 days.
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