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Published: 2012-06-07 03:23:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 853; Favourites: 40; Downloads: 0
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This is a Whiptail. C: They dwell in dark caves, have no eyes, and use their luminescent neck frills to see infra red. Whiptails communicate with each other by emitting different temperatures through their neck frills.They live on Emaela, the same world in which Malaika dwell.
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The frills are such a nice contrast that my eyes are naturally drawn to them. And then I see the teeth-yeeesh wouldn't want to meet that thing in a dark alley. Very cool looking creature.
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oh wow, that's an awesome concept! I love the glowies~
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Ahhh it looks really cool! I'm not going to try to understand how their anatomy works, though, hahaha! Is it sight? Is it feels? Is it something else? How does one infrared??
Scary critter! @u@ Pretty cool!
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I honestly don't know what sense it would be categorized as. I guess a whole new sense? Like certain snakes have infrared sensors around their mouths. They "see" infrared, but not with their eyes. Like the sensors send the images straight to their brain, like eyes would.
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actually, since infrared is actually a wavelength of light, they would technically be "seeing" it. You've seen thermal vision cameras before, right? They work just like normal cameras, except that they capture a wavelength of light just slightly longer than red, which is the last color on the spectrum that we can see. That's also how night vision cameras work; they shine infrared light everywhere like a spotlight, but nothing but the camera can see it, thus it appears they are seeing in the dark. To see infrared light actually doesn't sound that impossible or far fetched; after all, many raptor species can see ultraviolet and sharks can sense electric currents in water.
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Hmmmmm. I would guess it's most closely related to sight, just not sight as we understand it. 
Different sight with different eyes!
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really stunning i love how they detect infra red and they look so mean. I don't think a malaika would want to run into one of these!
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Thanks Agua! Yeah, they'd definitely be something to fear. >:3
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