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- Hairs sense environmental cues: insects
- Blind cave-dwellers have super senses: Alabama cavefish
- Fire opens seed capsules: banksia
- Blood vessels regulate temperature: vertebrates
- Antennae sense heat of prey: Rhodnius bug
- Thermal pits detect prey: snakes
- Receptors create thermal image: pit viper
- Skin detects thermal signals: blacktip reef shark
- Ion channels detects heat: vampire bat
- Transmembrane protein takes the temperature: bacillus
