Thermal vision

For snakes that hunt during the darkest hours of the night, spotting a tiny, scurrying mouse in the pitch black might sound like an impossible task. In reality, some snakes have an incredibly advantageous signalling system in their heads: they are able to see heat.

Warm-blooded rodents are a large portion of a snake’s diet, and with mice only giving off a small amount of body heat, this navigational skill is efficient and quick enough to allow precise and successful hunting at night. By the time the