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Alice Grove MCDT - April 2015

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--- Quote from: Zebediah on 02 Apr 2015, 04:36 ---Yeah, there's a reason that warm-blooded creatures don't see into the infrared. They'd be blinded from the heat of their own eyeballs. Or, given the lack of eyeballs in this case, the heat from the rest of the head.

Possible solution: An insulating layer behind the retina (or whatever else you'd like to call the heat-sensitive organ) that blocks the heat from the rest of the head.

Other possible solution: Don't overthink a webcomic.

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Thinking about it I found a single solution: they are cooled by air. The heat sensing membrane is very thin and the back is covered in mucus that receives direct flow of air from inhaled getting colder than the surround temperature while moisturizing the air.

Kugai:
07:28 hours on Friday 2nd of April and I thought of a Poll


Lucky me

ysth:
? Characidae are fish.

Zebediah:
The Characidae family includes piranhas. They are piranha plants.

Who knows, with genetic engineering they might even have a bit of piranha in their ancestry.

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--- Quote from: Zebediah on 02 Apr 2015, 15:45 ---The Characidae family includes piranhas. They are piranha plants.

Who knows, with genetic engineering they might even have a bit of piranha in their ancestry.

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Characidae family also include these cute little guys http://youtu.be/V95qslKg3wU

But you can use the name characidae on a creature that have no relation to fish if you use in the species name for example. You can even name a species batmani even if it isn't a bat, an ape or a bat-ape http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otocinclus_batmani

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