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Omi-san Jul 15, 2005 03:52 PM

Why do Python have 10 nostrils?

I couldn't find anything about this while searching the web.

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jmartin104 Jul 15, 2005 03:54 PM

>>Why do Python have 10 nostrils?
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>>I couldn't find anything about this while searching the web.

for sensing heat. Are you looking at the holes around the bottom side of the mouth?
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Jay A. Martin
Jay Martin Reptiles

IndiaPaleAle Jul 15, 2005 09:40 PM

All pythons have thermoreceptive pits along the labial or Infralabial scales. Except the two members of the genis Aspidites which are more primitive and have no thermoreceptive pits.

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